California · Private foundation
Gurmehar 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.
- $266k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Gurmehar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $266k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $240k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $426k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $230k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $360k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $144k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $216k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $161k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $497,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Sikh Research Institute | $299,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Glide Foundation | $160,620 | 8 | 0% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $114,901 | 8 | n/a |
| The Sikh Coalition | $93,501 | 8 | 1% |
| Sikh American Legal Defense & Education | $85,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Nanak Prachar Sabha Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $36,001 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Open Hand | $35,181 | 4 | 0% |
| The Cyber Sikh Organization a Non-Profit California Public Benefit | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $497,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Sikh Research Institute | $299,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Glide Foundation | $160,620 | 8 | 0% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $114,901 | 8 | n/a |
| The Sikh Coalition | $93,501 | 8 | 1% |
| Sikh American Legal Defense & Education | $85,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Nanak Prachar Sabha Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $36,001 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Open Hand | $35,181 | 4 | 0% |
| The Cyber Sikh Organization a Non-Profit California Public Benefit | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The 1947 Partition Archive | $22,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Dasvandh Network | $18,251 | 3 | 1% |
| Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services | $15,051 | 3 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Sikh Mission | $7,100 | 1 | 3% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $5,002 | 2 | 0% |
| Divine Will Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Khalsa Care Foundation | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Association of Sikh Professionals | $1,001 | 1 | 2% |
| Khalsa Peace Corps | $1,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hunger at Home | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gurmehar 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.
Open a dossier: Dasvandh Network · Beyond Borders Foundation Inc · 5Rivers Foundation · S Kirpal Singh Family Foundation Tr · Community Care Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Gurmehar Foundation
- How much does Gurmehar Foundation give?
- Gurmehar Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $266,001 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gurmehar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Religion (25%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Gurmehar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sankara Eye Foundation USA ($497k), Sikh Research Institute ($299k), Glide Foundation ($161k).
- Does Gurmehar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gurmehar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gurmehar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dasvandh Network, Beyond Borders Foundation Inc, 5Rivers Foundation.
- Where is Gurmehar Foundation based?
- Gurmehar Foundation is based in CA.
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