San Joaquin Kannada Sangha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842615041
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Redding, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8475300450
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,251
- Expenses
- $123,577
- Assets
- $20,675
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAGESH MELANAHALLI SHIVABASAPPA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- NAGESH MELANAHALLI SHIVABASAPPA (CEO)
- RAJASHANKARA GUBBI NARAYANA (CFO)
- HARINI SAMPATH KUMAR (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fundraising through Social and Cultural events for COVID and Cancer-related causes. Community volunteering and food drive for Tracy Interfaith Ministries - A local food bank catering to the economically backward. Custom curriculum and Textbook development for Kannada language teaching classes held weekly and in its second academic year.
What it reported doing in 2024
SJKS - Sports & Carnival
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.