The temple built around the resting place (samadhi) of Sai Baba, an ascetic who lived in the town of Shirdi in what is now Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district until his death in 1918, venerated by Hindus and by some Muslims for teachings that drew on both traditions without formally belonging to either. The shrine is managed by the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi, a public trust originally registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act of 1950 and later reconstituted under its own Maharashtra state statute, the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act of 2004, whose management committee includes appointees of the state government. It is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in India and among the wealthiest religious trusts in the country.
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Finances
Institutional Wealth or FinancesThe Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi, reported total income of about 851.97 crore rupees for the 2025-26 financial year, per an official statement by trust CEO Goraksh Gadilkar, up from 819.57 crore in 2023-24 and 436.95 crore in 2021-22. Within that total, pilgrim donations came to about 660 crore rupees; the trust also holds fixed deposits of about 3,618 crore rupees generating roughly 256 crore rupees in interest that year, and reported total holdings, separate from the year's income, of about 549.44 kilograms of gold and 7,030.47 kilograms of silver. This is the trust's reported annual income and separately reported deposit and precious-metal holdings, not an audited consolidated balance sheet of its total net worth or landholdings, which this atlas has not found published anywhere. 1 Scoped to the trust's own reported figures for the 2025-26 financial year and its point-in-time deposit and metal holdings; not an independently audited statement of total assets. Basis of the Wealth Figure Financial Disclosure RegimeThe Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi, is a public trust reconstituted under its own Maharashtra state statute, the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act of 2004, with a management committee including state government appointees, and it answers to the state Charity Commissioner under the general Bombay Public Trusts Act of 1950. Its financial figures reach the public through its own officials' statements at trust proceedings, carried by the press, rather than through a routine public regulatory filing or an independently audited report reaching this atlas directly. 1 Wealth Figure As Of YearThe 2025-26 financial year the trust's reported figures cover; the CEO's statement was reported on 18 June 2026. Sources
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