· Private foundation
Sikh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPERIAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATTION | $20,000 |
| THE HACK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERIANS FOR OXFORD | $13,600 |
| LUMS | $7,400 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATTION | $6,000 |
| ART AND TOLERANCE | $4,900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 81% of grant dollars ($369k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($89k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 19% of all-years giving ($89k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $98k
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +559% · 29% of their budget
- TIThe Imperial College Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- 5A50 ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE AND GALAone grant, 2017 · $197k
- GTGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The university of california press foundation (incorporated in 1981) is dedicated to raising philanthropic support and community visibility to ensure the long-term sustainability of uc press.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Imperial College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UNITED SIKH MOVEMENT ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sikh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sikh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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