United Sikh Movement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815233460
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9167539362
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Sikhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,260
- Expenses
- $152,159
- Assets
- $60,550
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GURSIMAR K SEHGAL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HARSIMRAN KAUR (SECRETARY)
- GURSIMAR K SEHGAL (PRESIDENT)
- SARBJOT SINGH (DIRECTOR)
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
What started as informal meetups between a few students became a movement. USM realized Sikh students didn’t need to choose between success and spirituality—they needed a support system that understood both. Tagline (donor-facing): An ecosystem for Sikh youth to excel professionally, personally and spiritually.
What it reported doing in 2024
Seeks to strengthen the sikh community by providing a structual foundation and resource base to sikh students based on the four pillars of spirtuality , philanthropy, commuminty and academics. Our aim is to unite sikh young adults through comprhensive community building, sikh activism, and community service. Provide students an opportunity to engage critically on issues pertaining to sikhism, to incubate and inspire the present and future sangat leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- 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: 2.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.