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Punjabi Community Hour Inc

CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES 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.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
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 FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$70kInternational$47kHuman Services$41kPhilanthropy$41kFood & Nutrition$22kReligion$20kHealth$10kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOD FOR SPIRITUAL CONGREGATION$9,900
SAHAITA INC BAL GHAR ANAND GHAR$6,000
LESS CHOICES FOR VICTIMS$5,000
GNFA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GURU NANAK RELIGIOUS SOCIETY$5,000
NO KID HUNGRY$5,000
ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
SAHAITA INC SIKLIGAR SIKHS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FEEDING AMERICA$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
MIRACLE FOUNDATION$1,000
CLINTONVILLE BEECHWOLD COMMUNITY CT$1,000
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.

Your US giving — 74% of grant dollars ($201k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($70k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JASWANT SAWHNEY IRR CHARITABLE TRUS: $25k → 6%JASWANT SAWHNEY IRR CHARITABLE TRUS: $5k → 6%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

IL
NY
OH
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US — 26% of all-years giving ($70k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$70k · 3 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 10 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$175k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • JS
    Jaswant Sawhney Irr Charitable Trust
    2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +69%
  • Feeding America
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    THE SIKH COALITION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • EC
    ETERNAL CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • BK
    BHAI KANHAIYA HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +34%

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
Sikh Aid Usa

To support needy people of any religion worldwide

Religion
2
Singh Family Foundation Washington
Philanthropy
3
Sikh of America Corp

Provide to Children Religious ,Moral and Provide free food and Shelter

Health
4
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
5
Sindhi Association of North America
6
Sanjay Shah Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Rakshak Foundation

Rakshak Foundation creates awareness domestically and internationally about the rights and responsibilities of citizens towards the society and the state. Rakshak engages in and supports social and scientific research on public policy and…

Human Services
9
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
10
Guru Gobind Singh Foundation Trust

Guru gobind singh foundation (ggsf) is a gurdwara that is a spiritual center an institution with a vision to create worldwide awareness regarding sikhs and sikhism. ggsfs mission has been to enhance the image of sikhs thru every possible…

Religion
11
Sikh Council On Religion and Education Inc
Religion
12
Sikh American Veterans Alliance Inc
Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nishkam Sikh Welfare Organization Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $60,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientETERNAL CHARITABLE FUND — $15,000 · OtherETERNAL CHARITABLE FUNDJASWANT SAWHEY TRUST — $15,000 · OtherJASWANT SAWHEY TRUSTBHAI KANHAIYA HOSPITAL — $10,000 · OtherBHAI KANHAIYA HOSPITALFOOD FOR SPIRITUAL CONGREGATION — $9,900 · OtherFOOD FOR SPIRITUAL CONGREGATIONGNFA — $7,000 · Other+10 more — $36,500 · Other+10 moreNISHKAM SIKH WELFARE ORGANIZATION USA INC — $47,000 · InternationalNISHKAM SIKH WELFAR…Jaswant Sawhney Irr Charitable Trust — $30,300 · Human ServicesJaswant Sawh…SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $9,950 · Arts & CultureSAHAITA INC — $8,000 · HealthTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthFeeding America — $7,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SIKH COALITION — $2,000 · Civil RightsSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $2,000 · Civil Rights
Other$153,800International$47,000Human Services$30,300Education$10,000Arts & Culture$9,950Health$9,000Food & Nutrition$7,000Civil Rights$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNISHKAM SIKH WELFARE ORGANIZATION USA INC — $47,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetJaswant Sawhney Irr Charitable Trust — $30,300 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $9,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAHAITA INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding America — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIKH COALITION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSikh American Legal Defense & Education — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 NISHKAM SIKH WELFARE ORGANIZATION USA INC
  • Who funds Jaswant Sawhney Irr Charitable Trust
  • Who funds SIKH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds SAHAITA INC
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE SIKH COALITION
  • Who funds Sikh American Legal Defense & Education
  • Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION 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.

Dasvandh NetworkTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dasvandh Network · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · 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 Punjabi Community Hour Inc 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Punjabi Community Hour Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Punjabi Community Hour Inc 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 25 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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