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Sinha Kikeri Foundation at a glance

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Sinha Kikeri Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$681
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$681
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.9MArts & Culture$594kEducation$541kInternational$183kHealth$3kYouth Development$3kEmployment$500Human Services$400Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$681
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WBEZ$681
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTO FDN: $50k → 16%TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: $17k → 10%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $115k → 17%THE SINHA KIKERI FUND (VANGUARD CHARITABLE): $2.9M → 7%MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 7%NIAM: $1k → 7%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $177k → 14%MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTO FDN: $50k → 16%TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: $17k → 10%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $177k → 14%TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: $8k → 10%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $170k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $35k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $35k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%THE SCHOOL OF ART INSTITUTE: $11k → 14%SOC FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $1k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS: $500 → 14%CHI ARTS: $1k → 14%WBEZ: $681 → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA (WBEZ): $500 → 14%WBEZ: $500 → 14%EQUAL HOPE: $1k → 14%EQUAL HOPE: $500 → 14%EQUAL HOPE: $500 → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $200 → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $100 → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $100 → 14%CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: $158k → 14%CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: $119k → 14%CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: $27k → 14%CHICAGO HUMANITIES: $12k → 14%CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: $12k → 14%YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED: $1k → 14%ETHS FDN: $500 → 14%WOMEN EMPLOYED: $300 → 14%WOMEN EMPLOYED: $200 → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $150 → 14%FREE SPIRIT MEDIA: $2k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $100 → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-23%

Still filing today

73%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2020–2023 · $643k · revenue +32%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +110%
  • ID
    India Development Service
    3× · 2020–2023 · $58k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SINHA KIKERI FUND (VANGUARD CHARITABLE)
    one grant, 2023 · $2.9M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • TS
    THE SCHOOL OF ART INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
2
Third Coast International Audio Festival

To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Cultural Alliance

The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Art Department

Cultivates new and emerging Chicago artists, and aims to benefit artists by exploring art and learning. Through exhibitions, artist residencies, classes/workshops and community building, we are dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas,…

Arts & Culture
5
The Richard H Driehaus Museum

The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Filmmakers

To serve independent film and digital video artists by supporting the creation and dissemination of new media arts works, and to serve Chicago audiences by screening artistically innovative, socially relevant, and diverse films and videos.

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Film Archives Nfp

Chicago Film Archives is a regional archive dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving, and providing access to films that represent the Midwest.

Arts & Culture
8
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
9
Design Museum of Chicago

The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…

Arts & Culture
10
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
11
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
12
Visceral Dance Chicago Nfp

Visceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary company dedicated to providing a comprehensive environment designed to cultivate dance education, creation and performance for choreographers, dancers, and artists.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Chicago Food Depository; the most unlike its peers is India Development Service. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SINHA KIKERI FUND (VANGUARD CHARITABLE): $2,904,182 · OtherTHE SINHA KIKERI FUND (VANGUARD CHARITABLE)+11 more: $191,081 · Other+11 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $643,331 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE…+1 more: $500 · EducationChicago Humanities Festival: $315,419 · Arts & CultureChicago H…The National Film Preserve Ltd: $42,400 · Arts & CultureThe Natio…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Public Safety & DisasterEqual Hope: $2,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $500 · HealthFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN EMPLOYED: $500 · EmploymentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,095,263Education$643,831Arts & Culture$358,819Public Safety & Disaster$125,000Health$2,500Youth Development$1,500Employment$500Food & Nutrition$250

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 budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $643,331 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $315,419 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIndia Development Service: $58,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $42,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEqual Hope: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sinha Kikeri Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sinha Kikeri Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.

    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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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