Vishav Gurmat Roohani Mission Charitable Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 776154815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Lodi, CA, United States
- Phone
- 408-393-8199
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Sikhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,534
- Expenses
- $139,589
- Assets
- $192,800
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amardip S Atwal (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Amardip S Atwal (CEO)
- Gurvir S Atwal (CFO)
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
To provide support, food (langar), medical aid, and guidance for all humanity. About Us _**Sant Baba Waryam Singh Ji is the founder and head of VISHAV GURMAT ROOHANI MISHER CHARITABLE TRUST.**_. _**He established a permanent prachar kendra in the year 1986 at Ratwara Sahib, 11 kilometers away from Chandigarh and founded Vishav Gurmat Roohani Mission Charitable Trust for Gurmat Prachar. As his sangat and followers were located at distant places, he opened mission's sub-centers at Khubia Nangal and Shalapur (U.P), Rajpura and Banur in Patiala Distt., Hirdapur in Ropar Distt., Mehli in Doaba region and Faridkot in Malwa region. In addition to weekly and monthly religious congregations, he started annual congregation (Samagam) in which people from across the world would take part which made Ratwara Sahib as very popular place of pilgrimage. Unlike other religious gatherings, the only pu.
What it reported doing in 2025
Held multiple events in which the community was provided with free food (langar). The community (sangat) was open to use the organizations space to conduct programs and event. Guidance/teachings on spiritual well-being and meditation were provided to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -41.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.