California · Private foundation
Deo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Deo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $72k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $47k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $48k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $50k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $88k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ektaa Center | $27,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Shah Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Long Beach Memorial Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jnana Prabodhini Foundation Inc | $7,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Siddhivinayak Temple Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Vision | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ektaa Center | $27,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Shah Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Long Beach Memorial Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jnana Prabodhini Foundation Inc | $7,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Siddhivinayak Temple Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Vision | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Asian Network Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jazz Angel Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deo Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Deo Foundation
- How much does Deo Foundation give?
- Deo Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $77,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Deo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (19%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Deo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ektaa Center ($27k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($25k), The Shah Foundation ($15k).
- Does Deo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Deo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Deo Foundation based?
- Deo Foundation is based in CA.
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