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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.
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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| SIKH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $51,000 |
| CYBER SIKG FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GLIDE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JASWANT SAWHNEY TRUST | $15,000 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SALDEF | $10,000 |
| SIKH COALITION | $10,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $10,000 |
| THE 1947 PARTITION ARCHIVE | $10,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SF FOOD BANK | $2,501 |
| ST JUDE CHILDEREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SESANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA8× · 2017–2024 · $497k · revenue +102%
- SRSikh Research Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +166%
- GFGLIDE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2022 · $150k
- NPNanak Prachar Sabha Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64%
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -9%
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.
The Sikh Information Centre is based on Sikhi which stresses unity truth and creativity of a personal spiritual enlightenment The organization strives to develop evaluate and disseminate articles programs and social events at a local…
Khalsa foundation california seeks to empower and advocate for the sikh and punjabi communities in the united states, fostering a sense of belonging and promoting holistic well-being through the sikh way of being. we strive to build a…
Provide to Children Religious ,Moral and Provide free food and Shelter
Guru gobind singh foundation (ggsf) is a gurdwara that is a spiritual center an institution with a vision to create worldwide awareness regarding sikhs and sikhism. ggsfs mission has been to enhance the image of sikhs thru every possible…
To support needy people of any religion worldwide
To promote the sikh religion.
To build a sikh temple that cares about the community, bring spiritualism, peace around inland empire area and around the world. we intend to revive the true teachings of guru nanak dev ji, guru granth sahib ji and all guru sahaibans,…
To practice, promote and preach the principles of guru nanak dev ji's message of universal brotherhood as taught by the ten sikh gurus and sri guru granth sahib. the gurudwara sahib was formed to cater to the religious, social and cultural…
To foster spitirual growth, unity and services to humanity through organizing satsangs,religious events and community programs
The organizations purpose is for the public benefit the advancement of the Sikh religion, primarily but not exclusively, in particular the ancient practice of meditation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cyber Sikh Organization a Non-Profit California Public Benefit and the most unlike its peers is The 1947 Partition Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Sikh Research Institute ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SIKH COALITION ↗
- Who funds Sikh American Legal Defense & Education ↗
- Who funds Nanak Prachar Sabha Inc ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds THE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1947 PARTITION ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds DASVANDH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds United Sikh Mission ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DIVINE WILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SIKH PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds KHALSA CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KHALSA PEACE CORPS ↗
- Who funds HUNGER AT HOME ↗
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: 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
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 Gurmehar Foundation 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.
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% 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.