Vasudha Foundation USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463275286
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Sugar Land, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2814940267
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,522,635
- Expenses
- $2,071,872
- Assets
- $1,962,827
- Liabilities
- $5,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Komala Krishnaswamy (President)
- Paul Clemens (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Komala Krishnaswamy (President)
- Paul Clemens (Vice President)
- Arathi Ramachandran (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
The broad mission of promoting clean energy and environmental friendly and socially just solutions. Specifically, its aims and objectives are: promote environment friendly, socially just and sustainable models of development; empower and carry the voices and struggles of community groups from the fast developing economies to ensure a transparent and participatory process in global policy making; provide technical support to communities and groups in developing economies for sustainable and low carbon paths.
What it reported doing in 2025
A) Developed unbranded communication on low carbon narratives. B) Developed alternate energy pathway economic and business models for scaling up renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for access to international finance. C) Developed tools for estimating GHG emissions estimations for India - part of capacity building and empowering civil society groups in the South. D) Created training programs on clean energy solutions and on addressing climate change.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 78% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: Fail
- 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: 41.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $240K reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.