Silambu
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882600954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Farmingtn Hls, MI, USA
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,355
- Expenses
- $22,115
- Assets
- $67,444
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEYYAPPAN MEYYAPPAN (President)
People named in this filing
- SWAMINATHAN SUBRAMANIAN (Board Chairman)
- MEYYAPPAN MEYYAPPAN (President)
- VINOTH MARIMUTHU (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
To promote peace love and economic growth through social upskilling and cultivating vibrant communities a strong cultural economy and a resilient creative sector by nurturing the children youth and adults of Tamil-English speaking families in the United States of America.
What it reported doing in 2024
Helped nurtured the kids from Tamil-English speaking families across the USA using SILAMBU literacy club. Printed ACTFL framework based materials for all the kids in the learning program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.8%; rating input score 33
- 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: 67.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.05; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 77% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 90.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.