Vishwamitra Research Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371490397
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Crystal Lake, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8158930301
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,161
- Expenses
- $176,384
- Assets
- $47,961
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- URMILA DIWEKAR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- URMILA DIWEKAR (PRESIDENT)
- RAVI VAIDYA (VICE PRESIDE)
- SANJAY JOAG (TREASURER, S)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Research on optimization under uncertainty in the areas of sustainability and chemical engineering.
What it reported doing in 2025
Developing novel absorbents to remove naturally occurring radioactive material from produced water generated during fracking for oil and natural gas.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.