A large number of devotees from all over the world visit the tirupati Ezhumalayan temple every day. The tirumala tirupati Devasthanam, which manages the tirupati Eyumalayan temple, manages various other temples besides the Ezhumalayan Temple. In this situation, the devotees who come to tirupati Hill offer about 4 crore rupees as an offering to Etummalayan every day.

Apart from this, more than 10 crores of rupees are earned daily for the devasthanam administration in the form of sale of prasad, rent till stay, donations and sale of hair. The Devasthanam administration uses about Rupees 1000 crores of its income to pay the employees. The remaining amount is kept as permanent deposit fund in various banks.

Apart from this, the devotees donate to the Devasthanam the ornaments, gold jewelry and gold bars which are not used for the decoration of the Swami, and the Devasthanam management has sent them to the mint in mumbai and converted them into gold bars and deposited them in the gold investment schemes of various banks. In that way around 10.25 tons of gold is invested in the gold investment scheme of various banks and earns interest income for the Devasthanam.

The Devasthanam administration has deposited over Rupees 15,000 crore as fixed deposits in various banks. Also Devasthanam has properties in 963 locations in different parts of the country. These include marriage halls and temples. The overall property value of the Devasthanam in such categories is estimated to be around Rupees 2.5 lakh crore. But according to the market value, this amount is considered to be around 4 lakh crore rupees.

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