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North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd

To support access to justice for South Asian communities in North America.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Crime & Legal$203kCivil Rights$30kHuman Services$29kInternational$23kArts & Culture$7kHealth$7k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $52,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aliento$15,000
Kiran$15,000
Sakhi for S Asian Survivors$15,000
Saahas for Cause$7,500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Aliento: $15k → 11%SEWA-AIFW: $7k → 11%Saahas for Cause: $8k → 14%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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Grants abroad, by region — $23k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$23k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Support DV survivo · Support immigr rght

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
3
Saheli Inc

To empower south asian women and families to lead safe and healthy lives. saheli offers free services to the underserved south asian women experiencing domestic abuse who face barriers to legal systems, public benefits, and achieving safe…

Human Services
4
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency

Provide referral help line, couseling, transitional home and supportto victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
5
South Asian Americans Leading Together

South Asian Americans Leading Together is a national movement strategy and advocacy organization committed to racial justice through structural change.

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North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd

To support access to justice for South Asian communities in North America.

Education
7
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
8
Maitri

Maitri is a free nonprofit organization for south asian women in situations of domestic abuse, cultural displacement, or unresolved conflict.

Human Services
9
Stand With Asian Americans

Swaa is americas first legal civil rights organization focused primarily on fighting anti-asian workplace discrimination. through the power of law, education and community, we protect and advance the rights of asians in america

Civil Rights
10
Asians Against Domestic Abuse

To prevent voilence and domestic abuse against survivors of abuse of marginalized population

Human Services
11
Ensaaf

Ensaaf, which means "justice" in many south Asian languages, works to end impunity and achieve justice for crimes against humanity in India, with a focus on Punjab, by documenting abuses, bringing perpetrators to justice, and organizing…

International
12
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Asian Women Project Inc. 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 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $170,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDSNEHA INC — $6,500 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $16,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES …SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $15,000 · InternationalSAKHI FOR SOUT…Empowerment Works Inc — $6,500 · InternationalEmpowerment Wo…Aliento Education Fund — $15,000 · Human ServicesAliento Edu…SAAHAS FOR CAUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesSAAHAS FOR …SEWA-AIFW — $6,500 · Human ServicesSEWA-AIFWKIRAN — $15,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $7,000 · Community ImprovementDaya Inc — $6,500 · Community ImprovementPARS EQUALITY CENTER — $6,500 · Civil RightsSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $6,500 · Civil RightsMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL — $6,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC — $6,500 · Health
Other$176,500International$37,500Human Services$29,000Crime & Legal$15,000Community Improvement$13,500Civil Rights$13,000Arts & Culture$6,500Health$6,500

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 budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $170,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIRAN — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL — $6,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDaya Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN WOMEN PROJECT INC — $6,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetPARS EQUALITY CENTER — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $6,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 15% 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.

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.

GofundmeorgCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gofundmeorg · The Asian American Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd?

    Find your warmest path to North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd 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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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