California · Public charity
Seva Foundation
SEVA FOUNDATION partners worldwide to create self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. Our vision is a world free of avoidable blindness.
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $343,058
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Seva Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 16 | $1.1M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $612k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $714k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $492k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $947k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $528k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $29k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology | $2,297,180 | 6 | 50% |
| Eye Samaritans International | $306,778 | 5 | 66% |
| Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc | $293,560 | 6 | 0% |
| Tundra Health Initiative Corp | $263,540 | 4 | 55% |
| Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation | $181,295 | 3 | n/a |
| Southcentral Foundation | $110,359 | 1 | 0% |
| Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin | $102,135 | 2 | n/a |
| First Nations Community Healthsource | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ute Mountain Ute Tribe | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Minneapolis Public School | $99,990 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology | $2,297,180 | 6 | 50% |
| Eye Samaritans International | $306,778 | 5 | 66% |
| Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc | $293,560 | 6 | 0% |
| Tundra Health Initiative Corp | $263,540 | 4 | 55% |
| Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation | $181,295 | 3 | n/a |
| Southcentral Foundation | $110,359 | 1 | 0% |
| Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin | $102,135 | 2 | n/a |
| First Nations Community Healthsource | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ute Mountain Ute Tribe | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Minneapolis Public School | $99,990 | 2 | n/a |
| Pueblo of San Felipe | $82,512 | 3 | n/a |
| Near Vision Institute | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah Navajo Health System Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Winnarainbow Inc Dba Camp Winnarainbow | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sacred Circle | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Md5m Lions Kidsight Foundation Inc | $47,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Cherish Eyesight and Vision Inc | $47,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | $29,666 | 1 | 7% |
| Blindnesss Support Services Inc | $27,050 | 1 | 1% |
| Project Orbis International Inc | $27,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kewa Pueblo Health Corp | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Nations Community Healthsource Pharmacy | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain University of Health Prof | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The American Himalayan Foundation | $11,651 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Seva Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Seva Foundation
- How much does Seva Foundation give?
- Seva Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $1,109,907, out of $7,438,894 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seva Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (51%), Health (45%), Education (2%).
- Who are Seva Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology ($2.3M), Eye Samaritans International ($307k), Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc ($294k).
- Does Seva Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seva Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc, Ndn Collective Inc.
- Where is Seva Foundation based?
- Seva Foundation is based in CA.
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