Shree Mata Darbar
Legal name: Shree Mata Darbar Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261462469
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 8324993420
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $300,680
- Expenses
- $34,573
- Assets
- $1,759,778
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shivaram Sitaram (Director President)
People named in this filing
- Rajiv Varma (Director and Secretary)
- Shivaram Sitaram (Director President)
- Ubrani Jayaram (Director Jt Secy)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote Hindu philosophy for fulfillment of ideal good human life and ecological balance. Develop a Human Empowerment Center called Shree Mata Darbar which supports the practice and research on Vedic science of spirituality and social justice. Publish books journals and calendar build and support Hindu Temples as religious and cultural centers. Organize and conduct camps on Hindu philosophy yoga and meditation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Shree Mata Darbar Samskara Gurukul of Atlanta: It is a temple for Devi UpasanaWorship place for universal Mother God. Its a vibrant hub for the community. Devotees engage in meaningful social service based on Hindu religious values a center where faith learning community service come together. The temple is located at 5490 McGinnis Village Pl. #E228 Alpharetta GA 30005.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 93
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.5%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 50.9; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 8% of revenue deployed · 69.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 41 current checks pass · 6 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX ConferencesMeetings column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesLegal column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesManagement column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.