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Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
10
Organizations funded FY2019
80%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $5k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
3
’18
7
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$500
Largest grant, FY2019
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 80% of the organizations Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
HealthFood & NutritionInternationalHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201910$5k80%
FY20187$38k100%
FY20175$187kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$392kHealth$165kEducation$42kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$1kHuman Services$250Housing & Shelter$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Malvan Education Society Inc$9,3751n/a
Festival of Trees Inc$1,20021%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$1,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Swim Across America Inc$1,00010%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$50010%
Habitat for Humanity$20010%
American Heart Association Inc$10010%
Michigan Humane Society$5010%
Salvation Army$501n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFestival of Trees Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation

How much does Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation give?
Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $4,600 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Health (26%), Education (7%).
Who are Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Malvan Education Society Inc ($9k), Festival of Trees Inc ($1k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($1k).
Does Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation based?
Ashok & Sharada Sarnaik Family Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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