Vedic Samaj NJ
Legal name: Vedic Samaj Nj Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822219782
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Warren, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 7324127576
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,977
- Expenses
- $26,083
- Assets
- $528,098
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MANISHA JANJIKHEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JITENDER SETHI (CHAIRPERSON)
- MANISHA JANJIKHEL (PRESIDENT)
- PRADEEP KUMAR (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
Vedic Samaj NJ is an association of people brought together by common bond of Hindu Dharma and cultural heritage. The group strives to enrich their lives through practicing vedic values and beliefs via prayers, social interaction, caring for each other and the well being of community at large. Vedic Samaj NJ Logo_edited.png. Youth Program - Vedic Samaj Youth (VSY) Vedic Samaj Youth Program creates awareness for the importance of giving back to the community and provides a platform for young leaders to give back to the community. Website Link: <.
What it reported doing in 2025
Vedic samaj nj provides a variety of services for the hindu dharma community including wedding services, medicare counseling, financial advice for young adults, havan ceremony for various occasions conducted according to vedic rites, healthfare, as well as notary services. On a monthly basis a children hindu heritage program class is offered in which young children are exposed to basic hindu concepts and indian culture. Each month has a special theme, past months have included geography of india, diwali, mother goddesses, as well as others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 3.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.25; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.