New York · Public charity
Singh Foundation Inc
Mission is to support grassroots groups promoting social harmony, welfare and development in South Asia and in the US.
- $704k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $394k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,236
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $159,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $906k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Singh Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $386k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $217k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $34k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $66k | 91% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy | $237,000 | 2 | 91% |
| Forum for Developing Communities Inc | $159,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bard College | $155,000 | 2 | 0% |
| DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc | $22,718 | 2 | 1% |
| Hindus for Human Rights | $21,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Dalit Solidarity | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Returning Home LLC | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc | $12,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Carribean Equality Project Inc | $11,601 | 2 | 2% |
| Teachers Unite Inc | $11,001 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy | $237,000 | 2 | 91% |
| Forum for Developing Communities Inc | $159,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bard College | $155,000 | 2 | 0% |
| DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc | $22,718 | 2 | 1% |
| Hindus for Human Rights | $21,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Dalit Solidarity | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Returning Home LLC | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc | $12,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Carribean Equality Project Inc | $11,601 | 2 | 2% |
| Teachers Unite Inc | $11,001 | 2 | 4% |
| African Communities Together Inc | $6,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Damayan | $6,600 | 1 | n/a |
| How Our Lives Link Altogether Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Audre Lorde Project Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Damayan Migrant Workers Association Inc | $5,001 | 1 | 1% |
| The Crenulated Company Ltd | $5,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Justice Committee Inc | $5,001 | 1 | 1% |
| Fund for the City of New York Inc | $5,001 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Singh Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Singh Foundation Inc
- How much does Singh Foundation Inc give?
- Singh Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $394,354, out of $703,978 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Singh Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (40%), International (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Singh Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: South Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy ($237k), Forum for Developing Communities Inc ($159k), Bard College ($155k).
- Does Singh Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Singh Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Star Fund Inc, New York Foundation, New York Women's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Singh Foundation Inc based?
- Singh Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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