Sri Venkateswara Temple & Cultural Center
Legal name: Sri Venkateswara Temple and Cultural Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261347364
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Novi, MI, United States
- Phone
- (248) 449-9049
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,174,300
- Expenses
- $1,314,938
- Assets
- $11,730,763
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
People named in this filing
- RAVI GULLAPALLI (CHAIRMAN)
- REETA SETTY (CHAIRWOMAN)
- VIJAY CHEKURI (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A charitable, cultural, religious and educational organization to express, promote, initiate and execute the cultural, educational and religious services for the people of Hindu community in the United States of America. To support humanitarian and charitable causes like educational and socioeconomic development of the needy To increase societal awareness of Indian heritage and promote appreciation To promote inter-religious activities for better understanding of diverse faiths, cultures and ethnic heritages. Provide a facility for all, regardless of ethnicity and background, to understand and promote virtues and spiritual growth amongst all based on Hindu scriptures Provide a learning center to teach, practice and display Indian arts and heritage.
What it reported doing in 2025
A charitable, cultural, religious and educational organization to express, promote, initiate and execute the cultural, educational and religious services for the people of Hindu community in the United States of America.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.92; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 29 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 47/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.