Telangana Development Forum (TDF-USA)
Legal name: Telangana Development Forum USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223674333
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- +1 800 123 456 789
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,378
- Expenses
- $240,150
- Assets
- $586,216
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Srinivas Manikonda (PRESIDENT)
- Bharath Nerevetla (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- Dr Divesh Anireddy (EX PRESIDENT)
- Preeti Reddy (VICE PRESIDENT)
- Sravanth PoReddy (VICE PRESIDENT)
- Srinivas Gillipelli (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Murali Chintalapani (CHAIRMAN)
- Srinivas Manikonda (PRESIDENT)
- Bharath Nerevetla (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a platform for all Telangana NRI’s, communities and organizations to preserve and propagate Telangana’s unique cultural identity, to work towards resource development and economic well being of Telangana and to develop awareness in the fields of farmer’s welfare, higher education, health and women empowerment along with organizing meetings and programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Telangana development forum (tdf-USA) provides a platform for the people of telangana state (29th state of india) for various development and cultural activities. Tdf-USA will collaborate with individuals and groups/organizations that may want to take up charitable developmental activities in telangana. Tdf-USA is actively building its local chapters in major cities across USA and may assist with development of international communities similar to that of tdf-USA, tdf-USA is also involved in organizing cultural and family events to help strengthen community bond among people of telangana living in USA. Telangana development forum takes up initiatives in area of education, health, agriculture and womens empowerment to serve the deprived communities in telangana, india.
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 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -47.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.44; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $240K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.