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Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA

Shri sita ram foundation, usa is an organization engaged in several philanthropic activities directly & indirectly.

$117k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2021.

Religion$103kArts & Culture$40kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $45,058, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,483 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,425 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$11,953
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORISSA CULTURE CENTER$15,000
SRI RAMA AJYA NIKETHAN$11,953
INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTONSOCIETY HOUSTON$11,605
JALARAM SAIBABA TEMPLE$6,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL HOUSTON: $5k → 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.

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.

South Asia$427k · 100% · 1 grant
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 5 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +85% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$96k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+85%

Still filing today

60%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IG
    INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTON
    5× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +59%
  • OC
    ORISSA CULTURE CENTER
    5× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +137%
  • SI
    Sewa International Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • VF
    VedicTree Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -4% · 30% of their budget
  • AT
    Ashtalakshmi Templegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +268%
  • HM
    HOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MANDALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +85%
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
Radha Govind Dham Dallas

Religious Organization

Religion
2
Hindu Center of Atlanta Inc

To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture

Religion
3
Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston Inc

Hindu temple - prayers

Religion
4
Manav Seva Mandir

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…

Religion
5
Sri Radha Bhakti

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

Religion
6
Sri Veda Vidya Peetham

Hindu temple

Religion
7
Flower Mound 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

Religion
8
A W Gayatri Pariwar Houston

Educational and religious activities Advance teaching of Hindu Vedic Scripures

Religion
9
Parvati Parameswara Temple Inc

Relegious and spiritual worship.

Religion
10
Brahm Foundation

Religious worship daily poojas and festi

Education
11
Sanatana Hindu-Dharma Internat Vedic Awareness

Operating a Hindu Temple and cultural center

Religion
12
Jagannath Organization for Global Awareness Inc

Religious organization to promote Lord Jagannath philosophy of universal brotherhood in western world

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is India Culture Center; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTON: $29,298 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA S…Ashtalakshmi Temple: $15,555 · ReligionAshtalakshmi TempleSANATAN SHIV SHAKTI MANDIR OF HOUSTON INC: $7,501 · ReligionSANATAN SHIV SHAKTI MANDIR OF H…SANKATA MOCHANA HANUMA: $16,953 · OtherSANKATA MOCHANA HANUMASAI BABA CHARITIES INC: $16,500 · OtherSAI BABA CHARITIES INCJAGADGURU KRIPALUJI YOG: $6,445 · OtherJAGADGURU KRIPALUJI YOGSRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY: $6,001 · OtherSRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIET…ORISSA CULTURE CENTER: $22,000 · Arts & CultureORISSA CULTURE CENTERHOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MANDAL: $7,502 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MAND…INDO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Arts & CultureINDO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO…INDIA CULTURE CENTER: $5,200 · Arts & CultureINDIA CULTURE CENTERVedicTree Foundation: $25,000 · Food & NutritionVedicTree Foun…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHINDUS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $5,000 · PhilanthropySewa International Inc: $11,000 · Human Services
Religion$52,354Other$45,899Arts & Culture$40,202Food & Nutrition$25,000Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$11,000

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY HOUSTON: $29,298 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetVedicTree Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetORISSA CULTURE CENTER: $22,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON MAHARASHTRA MANDAL: $7,502 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSANATAN SHIV SHAKTI MANDIR OF HOUSTON INC: $7,501 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetINDO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINDIA CULTURE CENTER: $5,200 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHINDUS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Verizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Shri Sita Ram Foundation USA 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $506k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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