· Public charity
Seva Foundation
SEVA FOUNDATION partners worldwide to create self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,109,907 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,438,894 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,328,987 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $523k
- $250k+1 grant · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY | $343,058 |
| SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION | $110,359 |
| TUNDRA HEALTH INNITIATIVE CORP | $108,930 |
| CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH | $93,770 |
| NEAR VISION INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| UNHS (UTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INCORPORATED) | $50,000 |
| URBAN INDIAN CENTER OF SALT LAKE | $50,000 |
| CAMP WINNARAINBOW | $50,000 |
| MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| CHERISH EYESIGHT AND VISION | $47,000 |
| CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION | $40,000 |
| EYE SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL | $32,740 |
| BLINDNESS SUPPORT SERVICES INC | $27,050 |
| FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $6.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING · AOP TRAINING, SURGICAL SUPPORT · EQUIPMENT AND SURGICAL SUPPORT
Stated purpose: HOSPITAL, VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT, TRAINING SUPPORT
Stated purpose: VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT · SURGICAL SUPPORT · OUTREACH, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDS, VC SUPPORT
Stated purpose: VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT · SURGICAL SUPPORT RETINAL CAMERA · OUTREACH, PEDS, VISION CENTER
Stated purpose: SURGICAL SUPPORT, PRISTINE CAMERA · CALL FOR IDEA,EYEONIC, PRISTINE CAMERA · EYECATE TO SECTOR WORKERS
Stated purpose: BLINDNESS PREVENTION SCREENING HIV PATIENTS
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. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +5% · 50% of their budget
- ESEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +63% · 66% of their budget
- COCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $294k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- SCSACRED CIRCLEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- BOBoard of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Instituteone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Mission of San Diego American Indian Health Center is to promote excellence in health care with respect to custom and tradition. Our goal is to reduce the significant health disparities San Diego's Urban American Indian and…
To help ensure the survival and healing of american indians and alaskan natives and the greater community by providing high quality, comprehensive health care and cultural services.
To actively serve the American Indians residing in Bakersfield, Arvin, Lamont and Oildale. Providing services that contribute to the health and vitality of the community, in a respectful manner with high regard for culture, spiritual and…
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
To empower the american indian through exceptional healthcare.
Southern Indian Health Council is a Native American organization committed to protecting and improving the physical, mental, and spiritual health of our American Indian Community. We provide a comprehensive range of wellness, health care,…
To provide health services to eligible american indians in the service areas of Glenn and Yolo counties and portions of Colusa, Butte and Tehama counties. Medical and dental services are provided to the general community as well.
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
Established by the tribes to advocate as the united voice of federally recognized american indian and alaska native tribes, nihb seeks to reinforce tribal sovereignty, strengthen tribal health systems, secure resources, and build capacity…
To provide comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health care through the operation of its clinic in Unalaska, Alaska. The clinic's mission is to provide care to all, regardless of ability to pay, and to specialize in providing care…
To continue to provide the best home like care facility for our Navajo elders and others with optium resources and professionalism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Navajo Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eye Samaritans International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY ↗
- Who funds EYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TUNDRA HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Southcentral Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE ↗
- Who funds NEAR VISION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds WINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW ↗
- Who funds UTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds BLINDNESSS SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH PROF ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc · Ndn Collective 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 Seva Foundation 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.
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
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.