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Lakan Incorporated

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.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Philanthropy$62kReligion$41kEducation$25kHealth$17kCrime & Legal$6kEnvironment$6kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GURU NANAK FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$9,730
GURU GOBIND SING FOUNDATION$7,000
CHILDRENS NATL$3,000
SALDEF$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$1,000
JASWANT SAWHNEY TRUST$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION$500
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$500
KARUNA CHARITIES WASHINGTON INC$500
UNITED WAY$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Montgomery County Coaltion for the Homeless: $2k → 8%Montgomery County Coaltion for the Homeless: $1k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION: $1k → 8%Montgomery County Coalition: $1k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$186k · 21 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

$186k
$64k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCivil RightsReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • GG
    GURU GOBIND SINGH FOUNDATION TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +21%
  • SH
    SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $12k · revenue +78%
  • Sikh American Legal Defense & Education
    4× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • FC
    Fidelity Charitable Advisor Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • D
    Dasvandh
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Singh Family Foundation Washington
Philanthropy
2
Sikh Information Centre

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…

Human Services
3
Sikh Council On Religion and Education Inc
Religion
4
Sanjay Shah Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Guru Nanak Study Circle

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,…

Religion
6
Guru Nanak Mission Inc

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…

Religion
7
SevaTruck Foundation

SevaTruck Foundation is a nonprofit food truck that delivers warm and nutritious vegetarian meals to students at Title I schools across the DMV area, while also supporting after school programs that help students succeed and break the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Sikh Family Center

Sikh family center is a nonprofit organization in the u.s. that promotes community well-being with a particular focus on gender justice. we provide trauma-centered resources for victim-survivors of violence while organizing to change the…

Human Services
9
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

10
The Kailash Goyal Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Charak Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Sikh Aid Usa

To support needy people of any religion worldwide

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ecosikh Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFidelity Charitable Advisor Fund — $25,000 · OtherFidelity Charitable Advisor FundIndividual grant recipient — $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGURU NANAK FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN — $10,500 · OtherDasvandh — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+27 more — $50,950 · Other+27 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $30,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY IN…SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $12,050 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $9,730 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $3,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $2,750 · HealthSTROKE COMEBACK CENTER — $1,500 · HealthGURU GOBIND SINGH FOUNDATION TRUST — $14,000 · ReligionSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $6,000 · Civil RightsTHE SIKH COALITION — $4,000 · Civil RightsECOSIKH INCORPORATED — $5,600 · Environment
Other$199,950Community Improvement$30,000Education$17,050Health$16,980Religion$14,000Civil Rights$10,000Environment$5,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGURU GOBIND SINGH FOUNDATION TRUST — $14,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $12,050 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $9,730 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetECOSIKH INCORPORATED — $5,600 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIKH COALITION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTROKE COMEBACK CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKARUNA CHARITIES OF WASHINGTON INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds GURU GOBIND SINGH FOUNDATION TRUST
  • Who funds SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Sikh American Legal Defense & Education
  • Who funds ECOSIKH INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE SIKH COALITION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds STROKE COMEBACK CENTER
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds KARUNA CHARITIES OF WASHINGTON INC

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Lakan Incorporated 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc19% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lakan Incorporated?

Find your warmest path to Lakan Incorporated through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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