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Asg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Asg Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Asg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $184k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k17 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $90,000 |
| UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $12,600 |
| HINDU TEMPLE OF GREATER CHICAGO | $7,452 |
| IAMA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VEDANTA CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $5,000 |
| GIANT STEPS | $5,000 |
| APNA GHAR | $5,000 |
| CHINMAYA MISSION | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND USA | $5,000 |
| JACKSON PARK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTER KITCHEN INC | $2,000 |
| EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA | $1,825 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +87%
- GSGiant Steps Illinois Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +24%
- HIHand in Hand USA5× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HIHEAL INDIAone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -6%
- COCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +2%
- AIAIMS INDIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To support educational opportunities for underserved children in india, and raising support for and awareness of such activities in the united states.
Healthcare and education for the needy
Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…
The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.
Transforming the success of the indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide.
To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…
Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…
Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…
Provide social development and relief assistance to underprivileged people primarily in india but also in nepal, sri lanka and the usa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is India Development Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand USA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON PARK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CHINMAYA MISSION CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds APNA GHAR INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL INDIA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
- Who funds Acus Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AIMS INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds TASSEL INC ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds India Development Service ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds National Indo American Museum ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Asg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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