· Private foundation
Simran 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| ADLER PLANETARIUM | $25,000 |
| ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| AROGYA WORLD | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO SCHOLARS | $10,500 |
| THE AKSHAY PATRA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRAM SEVA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $2,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $1,000 |
| LAKE FOREST ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| LAKE FOREST COUNTRY SCHOOL DAY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 99% of Simran Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 1%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +155%
- TATHE ADLER PLANETARIUM7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SHSAMBANDH HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- EHELMHURST HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AROGYA INC DBA AROGYA WORLD ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science ↗
- Who funds GRAM SEVA FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUPERNOVA SCHOLARS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simran Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simran Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lee Memorial Hospital Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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