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Lingam Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lingam Foundation Inc

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.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$85kEducation$64kReligion$43kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$6kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$50,000
NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW$25,000
SOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK FUND$25,000
UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$10,000
SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION$10,000
CHETANA FOUNDATION$5,000
PAYPAL GIVING FUND$2,000
SANKARA NETHRALAYA OM TRUST INC$1,000
HINDU TEMPLE OF ATLANTA$1,000
SRI KARUNAMAYI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDITATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIAN FRIENDS OF ATLANTA: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sankara Eye Foundation Usa

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…

Health
2
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
3
Ananta Giving Foundation

To provide support for charitable and educational organizations and initiatives in the united states and abroad, including but not limited to organizations and initiatives focused on providing and facilitating access to high quality…

Philanthropy
4
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
5
South Asian Bar Association of New York

SABANY is dedicated to the needs, concerns, and interests of lawyers in New York. SABANY works to ensure the civil liberties of its community in New York, provide education about the legal system, and encourage participation in the legal…

Community Improvement
6
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
7
Dasra

Dasra is catalyzing the strategic philanthropy movement to ensure that a billion lives can thrive with dignity and equity. dasra works with philanthropists, families, and corporate foundations to support them in amplifying their giving…

International
8
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
9
Vedanta Charitable Foundation
Education
10
Samarpan Foundation Usa
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11
Agaram Foundation Americas

Agaram foundation americas partners with agram foundation a registered charity located in tamil naidu , india , to provide educational scholarship and mentoring to under- priviledged children in rural tamil naidu.

International
12
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Napaba Law Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherSOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICATHE HINDU TEMPLE OF ATLANTA INC: $40,001 · OtherTHE HINDU TEMPLE OF ATLANTA INCUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAWSOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION: $10,000 · OtherSOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTIONUC LAW SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 · OtherUC LAW SAN FRANCISCO+7 more: $8,065 · Other+7 moreTHE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATIONSouth Asian Bar Association of New York Fund: $25,000 · EducationSouth Asian Bar Association of N…New York University: $10,000 · EducationNew York University+3 more: $1,500 · EducationCHETANA GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAshaKiran Foundation: $3,000 · Crime & LegalINDIAN FRIENDS OF ATLANTA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150 · Health
Other$143,066Education$61,500Philanthropy$7,000Crime & Legal$3,000Human Services$1,000Health$150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetSouth Asian Bar Association of New York Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHETANA GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAshaKiran Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lingam Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lingam Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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