· Public charity
Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA
Shri sita ram foundation, usa is an organization engaged in several philanthropic activities directly & indirectly.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $45,058 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $117,483 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,425 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORISSA CULTURE CENTER | $15,000 |
| SRI RAMA AJYA NIKETHAN | $11,953 |
| INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTONSOCIETY HOUSTON | $11,605 |
| JALARAM SAIBABA TEMPLE | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $427k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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 +101% since the first grant, against +85% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IGINTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTON5× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +59%
- OCORISSA CULTURE CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +137%
- SISewa International Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- VFVedicTree Foundationone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -4% · 30% of their budget
- ATAshtalakshmi Templegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +790%
- HMHOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MANDALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +85%
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.
Religious Organization
To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture
Hindu temple - prayers
The manav seva mandir is a hindu religious institution in the greater chicagoland area. not only is it an excellent place of worship, but it also renders a social atmosphere and a cultural center that preserves and promotes our hindu…
Meditation nbsp;kirtan nbsp;prasadam nbsp;bhakti nbsp;yoga nbsp;based nbsp;on nbsp;nimbarki nbsp;vaishnava nbsp;a nbsp;part nbsp;of nbsp;hindu nbsp;sanatan nbsp;dharma
Hindu temple
to promote and practice the ideals of Hindu religion through worship, education, and cultural activities, while striving for spiritual richness and human excellence
Educational and religious activities Advance teaching of Hindu Vedic Scripures
Relegious and spiritual worship.
Religious worship daily poojas and festi
Operating a Hindu Temple and cultural center
Religious organization to promote Lord Jagannath philosophy of universal brotherhood in western world
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is India Culture Center and the most unlike its peers is VedicTree Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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.
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 INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds VedicTree Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORISSA CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ashtalakshmi Temple ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MANDAL ↗
- Who funds SANATAN SHIV SHAKTI MANDIR OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds INDO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INDIA CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HINDUS OF GREATER HOUSTON ↗
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.
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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 Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA 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.
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.
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