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Seva Foundation

SEVA FOUNDATION partners worldwide to create self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight.

$7.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$343k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$2.3MHealth$2.0MEducation$80kFood & Nutrition$53kHuman Services$50k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $1,109,907, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,438,894 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,328,987 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $523k
  • $250k+1 grant · $343k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
URBAN INDIAN CENTER OF SALT LAKE$50,000
UNHS (UTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INCORPORATED)$50,000
CAMP WINNARAINBOW$50,000
CHERISH EYESIGHT AND VISION$47,000
MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION: $47k → 6%MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $555k → 11%BLINDNESS SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $27k → 11%CAMP WINNARAINBOW: $50k → 18%ORBIS INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 17%SAN FELIPE PUEBLO: $29k → 10%FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $50k → 14%EYEMOTE VISION SUPPORT: $15k → 15%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $94k → 16%MENOMINIEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN: $53k → 24%CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION: $100k → 8%UNHS (UTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INCORPORATED): $50k → 23%UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBE: $65k → 15%CHERISH EYESIGHT AND VISION: $47k → 15%NEAR VISION INSTITUTE: $60k → 9%SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%TUNDRA HEALTH INNITIATIVE CORP: $109k → 20%EYE SUMMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 22%MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $369k → 11%SAN FELIPE PUEBLO: $27k → 10%FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $50k → 14%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $74k → 16%MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN: $50k → 24%SACRED CIRCLE: $50k → 8%UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBE: $35k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%TUNDRA HEALTH INNITIATIVE CORP: $75k → 20%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $354k → 11%KEWA PUEBLO HEALTH CORPORATION: $25k → 10%PUEBLO OF SAN FELIPE: $28k → 14%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $65k → 16%CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION: $41k → 8%TUNDRA HEALTH INNITIATIVE CORP: $55k → 20%EYE SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL: $177k → 22%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $348k → 11%FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $25k → 14%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $27k → 16%CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION: $40k → 8%TUNDRA HEALTH INNITIATIVE CORP: $25k → 20%EYE SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL: $63k → 22%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $343k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: $20k → 16%URBAN INDIAN CENTER OF SALT LAKE: $50k → 8%EYE SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL: $33k → 22%KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $328k → 11%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

AK
WA
MN
WI
NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
NM
OK
LA

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.

South Asia$3.2M · 52% · 38 grants

Stated purpose: CAPACITY BUILDING · AOP TRAINING, SURGICAL SUPPORT · EQUIPMENT AND SURGICAL SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$1.9M · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HOSPITAL, VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT, TRAINING SUPPORT

South America$678k · 11% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT · SURGICAL SUPPORT · OUTREACH, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDS, VC SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$239k · 4% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: VISION CENTERS, SURGICAL SUPPORT, PEDIATRIC SUPPORT · SURGICAL SUPPORT RETINAL CAMERA · OUTREACH, PEDS, VISION CENTER

Middle East and North Africa$86k · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: SURGICAL SUPPORT, PRISTINE CAMERA · CALL FOR IDEA,EYEONIC, PRISTINE CAMERA · EYECATE TO SECTOR WORKERS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$63k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BLINDNESS PREVENTION SCREENING HIV PATIENTS

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 12 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-11%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • KC
    KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +5% · 50% of their budget
  • ES
    EYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +63% · 66% of their budget
  • CO
    CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $294k · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SC
    SACRED CIRCLE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • BO
    Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -12%
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.

1
San Diego American Indian Health Center

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…

Health
2
Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc

The organization is organized as a joint venture between the indian tribes of riverside and san bernardino counties for the purpose of providing health, dental, optical and nutrition services to eligible indian beneficiaries.

Health
3
Vision for the Poor

To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.

International
4
Bakersfield American Indian Health Project Inc

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…

Health
5
Eyecare for Humanity
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6
Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

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.

Health
7
American Indian Health & Services

To promote and provide quality services to improve the health and well-being of American Indians/Alaska Natives and other community members.

Arts & Culture
8
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
9
Sunrise Clinics

Sunrise clinics operates primary care clinics in rural communities in new mexico. these clinics either directly or through contractual arrangements provide medical care, behavioral health care, dental care, and vision care to medically…

Health
10
Alaska Native Health Board

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.

—
11
Sonoma County Indian Health Project Inc

To continually improve and maintain a comprehensive health care system to serve the needs and traditional values of our american indian community.

Health
12
Right of Sight and Health Inc

The primary exempt purpose of Right of Sight and Health Inc. is to provide good quality, accessible and affordable Eye Care and health care to impoverished populations regardless of race, tribe, age, sex, religion and financial status.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Navajo Health System Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $2,297,180 · InternationalKILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY+2 more: $38,651 · InternationalEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $306,778 · HealthEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONALCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $293,560 · HealthCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDI…TUNDRA HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP: $263,540 · HealthTUNDRA HEALTH INITIATIVE CORPSouthcentral Foundation: $110,359 · HealthSouthcentral FoundationFIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE: $100,000 · HealthFIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTH…NEAR VISION INSTITUTE: $60,000 · HealthUTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthCONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION: $181,295 · OtherCONFEDERATED TRIBES O…MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN: $102,135 · OtherMENOMINEE INDIAN TRIB…UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBE: $100,000 · OtherUTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIB…MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL: $99,990 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SC…PUEBLO OF SAN FELIPE: $82,512 · OtherPUEBLO OF SAN FELIPEUrban Indian Center of Salt Lake: $50,000 · OtherUrban Indian Center o…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHING…SACRED CIRCLE: $50,000 · OtherSACRED CIRCLECHERISH EYESIGHT AND VISION INC: $47,000 · OtherCHERISH EYESIGHT AND …Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute: $29,666 · Other+3 more: $77,050 · Other+3 moreWINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsMD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyROCKY MOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH PROF: $20,000 · Education
International$2,335,831Health$1,209,237Other$869,648Recreation & Sports$50,000Philanthropy$47,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKILIMANJARO CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY OPHTHALMOLOGY: $2,297,180 over 6y, 50% of budgetEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $306,778 over 5y, 66% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $293,560 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTUNDRA HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP: $263,540 over 4y, 55% of budgetSouthcentral Foundation: $110,359 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBoard of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute: $29,666 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBLINDNESSS SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $27,050 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH PROF: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $11,651 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

First Nations Develop…Albuquerque Area Indi…Ndn Collective IncAmazonsmile Foundation
First Nations Development InstituteCO19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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