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Sewa International Inc

The organization's objective is to serve humanity in distress, aid local communities,and promote volunteerism in pursuit of its vision of a world of equality where everyone is happy,enjoying good health, and living in harmony with nature.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$100kReligion$90kRecreation & Sports$70kInternational$66kHealth$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kHuman Services$23kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $77,024, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,121,674 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,044,650 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GlobalHinduHeritageFoundation$60,007
GoodVision USA$12,000
Abby Kelley Foster House Inc$5,017
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Yoga Day USA: $7k → 16%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

NH
IL
MA
IN
PA
CA
HI
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $2.9M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$2.9M · 98% · 32 grants

Stated purpose: Community Welfare · Disaster relief · Education

South America$50k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Health and wellness

Sub-Saharan Africa$10k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Disaster relief

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 3 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$135k
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-20%

Still filing today

67%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
EducationReligionPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $66k
  • AD
    AMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +56%
  • HS
    HINDU SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +301%

Funded once

  • TH
    TEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +300%
  • AE
    AUM EDUCATION SOCIETY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -27%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Hindu Center of Atlanta Inc

To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture

Religion
2
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
3
Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh U S a Inc

The Mission of the Hindu Swayaamsevak Sangh USA, Inc. is: * to give primacy to Humanitarian and Spiritual values of life; * to create and promote a better understanding and more friendly relationship between races, nations and through…

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4
World Hindu Foundation of America

World hindu foundation of america, inc. endeavors to promote networking amongst practitioners of sanatan hindu dharma through community-oriented social, spiritual, cultural, intellectual and educational activities.

Public Benefit
5
Hindu Community Relations Council

Hindu Community Relations Council engages in charity and community education. In 2024, we brought together members of the Hindu community to support a eco bag drive with Sewa International. Through our outreach, there is broader awareness…

Religion
6
Hindus of Greater Houston

The goal was to unite the entire hindu population of greater houston at one place to develop a strong unity and brotherhood among the hindu community. the idea was discussed with a number of active hindu individuals and associations and…

Philanthropy
7
Udayan

Provide a platform for practice and preservation of Bengali Hindu religious and cutural heritage by its members such as celebrate Durga Puja, Sawraswati Puja, annual cultural entertainment, and charitable activities.

Religion
8
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
9
India Heritage Society

Temple and Temple Activities

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10
Sindhi Association of North America
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11
Harrisburg Gujarati Association

To propagate teachings and ideals of GujaratiHindu Religion To foster basic tenets and doctrines of Gujarati Religion within our community of greater south central Pennsylvania To celebrate auspicious events and festivals in accordance…

Arts & Culture
12
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Hindu Campsite Inc; the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster House Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUM EDUCATION SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $60,116 · EducationAUM EDUCATION SOCIETY OF…AMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP INC: $39,859 · EducationAMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP…GLOBAL HINDU HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $60,007 · ReligionGLOBAL HINDU HERITAGE …HINDU SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $29,745 · ReligionHINDU SOCIETY OF AMERI…TEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEXAS HINDU CAMPS…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INC…DHARMA CENTER OF AMERICA: $15,929 · OtherDHARMA CENTER OF AMERICANASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $10,417 · OtherNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SH…We Must Protect Inc: $10,000 · OtherWe Must Protect IncYOGA DAY: $7,491 · OtherYOGA DAYABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $5,017 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL: $65,680 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CE…ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $10,019 · Public Safety & DisasterCARMEL FIRE AUXILIARY INC: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGoodVision USA Inc: $12,000 · Health
Education$99,975Religion$89,752Youth Development$70,000Other$98,854International$65,680Public Safety & Disaster$17,019Health$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAUM EDUCATION SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $60,116 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGLOBAL HINDU HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $60,007 over 1y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN DIVERSITY GROUP INC: $39,859 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHINDU SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $29,745 over 2y, 24% of budgetGoodVision USA Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $10,417 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $10,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Must Protect Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $5,017 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Texas Instruments Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sewa International Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sewa International Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Sewa International Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sewa International Inc 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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