Sanatana Abhyudaya Sevasamiti Inc.
Legal name: Sanatana Abhyudaya Sevasamiti
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300719869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Ashburn, VA, United States
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,289
- Expenses
- $35,940
- Assets
- $132,225
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Venkataraman Meenakshisundaram (President)
- Satyanarayana P Marathe (Former Vice President until September 2020)
People named in this filing
- Venkataraman Meenakshisundaram (President)
- Muralidhara Bhatta (Secretary Treasurer)
- Dashagrandhi Bhaskar Shastri (Chairman)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SASI’s mission is to provide education to the younger generation about the religious aspects of the Vedic culture. Teach the youngsters the relevance of these Vedic rituals in their modern lives and provide opportunities to them to practice these rituals in their own everyday life. SASI, the acronym is derived from the organization’s name **S** anatana **A** bhyudaya **S** eva Samit**i**. Sanatana means eternal, Abhyudaya means upliftment, Seva means to serve, and Samiti means committee. Thus SASI literally means a committee working together to uplift humanity by serving society to fulfill the purpose of human life as envisaged by Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana Dharma teaches us, “each human being owes 3 outstanding debts”. First debt we all owe is to celestial beings that is referred to as “Deva Runa”; second debt we all owe is to all the saints and sages –“Rishi Runa” and the third debt...
What it reported doing in 2020
SASIstrivestoprovideaforumwheremultiplegenerationsparents, childrenandgrandparentscouldcometogethertoperformthevariousritualsasagroup; orhavetheritualsperformedforthembytrainedandqualifiedVedicPundits.SASI'sprogramsaredesignedtopromoteandpreservetheknowledgeofartsandHinduculturebyintroducingtheyoungergenerationtovarioustraditionalartforms.ThesetraditionalartsareanintegralpartoftraditionalVedicceremonies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.68; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.