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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $52,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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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 (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 its 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
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

MN
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
NC
DC
TX

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

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. 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.
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

GofundmeorgThe Asian American Fo…Tides FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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