· Public charity
Association of Physicians Ofpakistani-Descent of North America
Association of physicians of pakistani-descent of north america (appna) is a professional, non-political, equal opportunity organization, which promotes excellence in healthcare, research, education, social justice, and humanitarian activities.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LION'S EYE INSTITUTE | $64,513 |
| SAVING SIGHT | $51,000 |
| ICNA RELIEF | $41,000 |
| CORNEAGEN | $36,957 |
| SAYLANI WELFARE INTERNATIONAL TRUST | $30,000 |
| OBAT HELPERS INC | $25,250 |
| CUSTOMS HEALTH CARE SOCIETY | $22,266 |
| QAMCAANA | $14,000 |
| VISION FIRST - INDIANA LION'S EYE BANK | $13,000 |
| CDRS USA | $9,000 |
| ABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,614 |
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 (FY18–18, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Grants abroad, by region — $294k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CORNEA PROJECT · HURRICAN RELIEF · QURBANI DONATION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Association of Physicians Ofpakistani-Descent of North America’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +101% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC2× · 2018–2024 · $184k · revenue +194%- LWLIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +284%
- MLMISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $94k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- KIKERALINK INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2018 · $49k · revenue -68%
- HNHUMAN NECESSITY FOUNDATION WORLDWIDone grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue -56%
- EEversightgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue +49%
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 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…
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Surgical Eye Expeditions INTERNATIONAL, INC. is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization that provides medical, surgical, and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the primary goal of restoring sight to blind individuals…
Preserving and restoring sight on a global scale.
Accelerate equitable access to eyeglasses for one billion people. eyelliance advances four mutually reinforcing global and national strategies, gov delivery, sustainable financing, institutional advocacy, and catalytic partnerships.
Humanity first's mission is to relieve suffering caused by natural disasters or human conflict, promote peace and understanding, and strengthen people's capacity to help themselves.
We improve access to essential healthcare for patients by motivating providers to deliver affordable and quality care, enabled by technology.
Optometry giving sight targets the prevention of blindness & impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error through education, training, service delivery and advocacy.
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in such activity as may be necessary, appropriate or otherwise helpful to support, provide assistance to or perform functions of aravind eye hospital and postgraduate institute of ophthamology…
We are a nonprofit charitable organization empowering the livelihood of visually challenged people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions World Vision Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plano Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OBAT HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds ABDUL SATTAR EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation Saving Sight ↗
- Who funds KERALINK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NECESSITY FOUNDATION WORLDWID ↗
- Who funds SAYLANI WELFARE TRUST USA ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds LRBT USA INC ↗
- Who funds KING EDWARD MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA LIONS EYE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Jinnah Sindh Medical University Alumni Association of North America ↗
- Who funds PLANO FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: Baxter International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Association of Physicians Ofpakistani-Descent of North America 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.
- Lions World Vision Institute 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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