California · Private foundation
Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $116k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $85k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $84k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $52k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Biswas | $55,000 | 7 | 17% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $46,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Karuna America | $45,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Maternal Help Hope Fund | $36,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Accounting Aid Society | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Share and Care Foundation for India | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grameen America Inc | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Focushope | $24,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Biswas | $55,000 | 7 | 17% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $46,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Karuna America | $45,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Maternal Help Hope Fund | $36,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Accounting Aid Society | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Share and Care Foundation for India | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Grameen America Inc | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Focushope | $24,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ladder Up (F/K/A City-Wide Tax Assistance Program) | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Heart and Home Collaborative | $16,700 | 7 | 3% |
| Dreams for Change Inc | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Education Empowerment for Women | $14,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Wateraid America Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Threads for Success | $8,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Deserving Causes India Foundation | $6,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Building Community Value | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Dalit Solidarity | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maia | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation
- How much does Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation give?
- Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $115,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Health (27%), Community Improvement (18%).
- Who are Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Our Biswas ($55k), The Fistula Foundation ($47k), Karuna America ($45k).
- Does Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation based?
- Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation is based in CA.
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