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Sehgal Foundation

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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$2.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$10MHuman Services$332kInternational$211kFood & Nutrition$122kArts & Culture$111kRecreation & Sports$93kEnvironment$63kEducation$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.7M
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
S M SEHGAL FOUNDATION$2,705,000
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC$125,000
INDIA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE$31,000
IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING$30,000
THE DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE$27,500
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$25,000
WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION$12,000
KT'S KIDS$10,000
INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION$10,000
FOOD BANK OF IOWA$7,500
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$5,000
CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$3,000
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF FORT MYERS$2,500
JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION$2,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,500
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.

US giving: 10% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 90% that went abroad ($10M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIASPORA: $30k → 10%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $3k → 6%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $125k → 17%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SARIS TO SUITS: $2k → 13%INDIASPORA: $21k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $125k → 17%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%INDIASPORA: $10k → 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%GIVING HOPE AND HELP INC: $3k → 15%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $250 → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%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
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 90% of all-years giving ($10M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$10M · 7 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Sehgal Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sehgal Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 91% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 37 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
28

Total granted

$11M
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +79%
  • IC
    IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
    5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +32%
  • I
    INDIASPORA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DM
    DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -12%
  • IS
    INDIAN SCHOOLS ALUMNI AND FRIENDS INSAFgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • IP
    IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
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

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.

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Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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7
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
8
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
11
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childserve Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Raaga Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 77 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
36/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

S M SEHGAL FOUNDATION: $10,135,152 · OtherS M SEHGAL FOUNDATION+49 more: $432,991 · OtherYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $255,000 · Human ServicesINDIASPORA: $61,000 · Human Services+6 more: $17,998 · Human ServicesIOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: $127,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $7,500 · International+1 more: $400 · InternationalWorld Food Prize Foundation: $49,000 · PhilanthropyEvanston Community Foundation: $31,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropySTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $43,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,500 · EducationNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,400 · EducationDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $36,504 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINDIA ASSOCIATION OF FORT MYERS INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureKTs Kids: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,568,143Human Services$333,998International$134,900Philanthropy$81,500Education$69,400Arts & Culture$68,004Youth Development$40,000

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 budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $255,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: $127,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetINDIASPORA: $61,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation: $49,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKTs Kids: $40,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $36,504 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $26,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN SCHOOLS ALUMNI AND FRIENDS INSAF: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPTIVA ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,846 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEVANSTON GROWS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC: $7,725 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAN PLAY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST JAMES CATHEDRAL COUNSELING CTR: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3,023 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIA ASSOCIATION OF FORT MYERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING HOPE & HELP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDes Moines Refugee Support: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,029 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARIS TO SUITS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRaaga Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetOpportunity on Deck: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP: $1,267 over 4y, 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.

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.

The Merchants Bonding…Prairie Meadows Race …Ita Group FoundationMeredith Corporation …EMC Insurance Foundat…William C Knapp Chari…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…Athene Charitable Fou…The West Bancorporati…Lsb FoundationCommunity Fdn of Grea…Gartner Family Founda…
The Merchants Bonding Company FoundationIA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Ita Group Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Athene Charitable Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner

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 Sehgal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sehgal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sehgal Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sehgal Foundation 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 77 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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