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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHINMAYA MISSION | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $5,000 |
| VEDANTA CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| HAND IN HAND USA | $5,000 |
| APNA GHAR | $5,000 |
| IAMA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GIANT STEPS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds TASSEL INC ↗
- Who funds India Development Service ↗
- Who funds DANDELION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Asg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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