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Nikirahul 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$91kHealth$87kReligion$26kYouth Development$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$342k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$33,000
HINDU SAMAJ$25,000
EVFUSA$5,000
F KAL VIDYALAYA FDN$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%FRIENDS OF SUE SERINO: $1k → 9%NY MED COLLEGE: $71k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $250 → 17%EVFUSA: $5k → 14%ARMAN N ROY FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%HINDU SAMAJ TEMPLE: $26k → 9%TOURO UNIVE: $33k → 9%SANKAR EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%HINDU SAMAJ: $25k → 9%TOURO UNIVE: $350 → 9%HINDU SAMAJ TEMPLE: $4k → 9%HINDU SAMAJ: $500 → 9%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 5 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$174k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+13%

Still filing today

20%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SE
    SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +73%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k

Funded once

  • NM
    NY MED COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $71k
  • EV
    EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • SE
    SANKAR EYE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NY MED COLLEGE: $71,429 · OtherNY MED COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $33,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $30,001 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHINDU SAMAJ INC: $25,500 · OtherHINDU SAMAJ INCF KAL VIDYALAYA FDN: $10,000 · OtherF KAL VIDYALAYA FDN+4 more: $13,096 · Other+4 moreSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $75,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USAEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $10,000 · InternationalArman N Roy Foundation: $1,023 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 · Education
Other$183,376Health$75,000International$10,000Youth Development$1,023Education$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetArman N Roy Foundation: $1,023 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 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.

  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD ↗
  • Who funds Arman N Roy Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 13 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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