Sufi Ruhaniat International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941742095
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3037189712
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $620,029
- Expenses
- $647,656
- Assets
- $1,553,373
- Liabilities
- $855,459
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shabda Peter Kahn (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Shabda Peter Kahn (President): $69,000 total reported compensation
- Wendy R Welsh (Treasurer): $44,000 total reported compensation
- Anne Beardsworth (Secretariat): $44,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping individuals unfold their highest spiritual purpose, manifest their essential inner being, and live harmoniously with others with the hope of relieving suffering and contributing to the awakening of all of humankind. To help reinforce this principle, communication with SRI members will typically be from a well-recognized member of SRI or a communication address that is easily recognizable as representing SRI. SRI will favor communication mechanisms and operational procedures that allow appropriate use of the information without proliferating copies of the information. SRI may at times send messages to its membership on behalf of other groups. These messages may offer individuals the opportunity to affiliate with these other groups directly and receive future communication from them directly. These messages, where possible, should be explicit about the SRI relationship (e.g....
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual community retreat gatherings and monthly online gatherings for leadership training, spiritual teachings and religious concentration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.4; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $593K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.