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South Asian Americans Leading Together

South Asian Americans Leading Together is a national movement strategy and advocacy organization committed to racial justice through structural change.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$80kPublic Benefit$38kCivil Rights$13kInternational$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,799, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,799 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 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.
$5,799
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Singh Foundation$5,799
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $13k → 14%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $11k → 19%SAPNA NYC: $11k → 28%INDO-AMERICAN CENTER: $13k → 14%DESI RAINBOW PARENTS AND ALLIES: $35k → 8%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 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.

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Sindhi Association of North America
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2
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
3
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency

Provide referral help line, couseling, transitional home and supportto victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
4
Gujaratis of North America
Arts & Culture
5
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
6
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
7
Indo-American Senior Citizen Center of New York Inc

Services for senior citizens to conduct and develop programs directly or in collaboration with other organizations for the benefit of senior citizens in order to address their needs.

Human Services
8
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
9
United Sikhs

To transform underprivileged and minority communities and individuals into informed and vibrant members of society through civic, educational and personal development programs, by fostering active participation in social and economic…

Human Services
10
Ashiyanaa Inc

Empowering south asians to lead peaceful lives with dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency by providing comprehensive and culturally-sensitive services.

Human Services
11
New York Albany Tamil Sangam
Arts & Culture
12
India Community Center Inc

Promoting cultural diversity

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sapna Nyc Inc; the most unlike its peers is AshaKiran Inc. 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

10 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES: $35,237 · Human ServicesDESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIESSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INCIndo-American Center: $12,500 · Human ServicesIndo-American CenterAshaKiran Inc: $11,250 · Human ServicesAshaKiran IncJAKARA MOVEMENT: $11,250 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENTSAPNA NYC INC: $11,250 · Human ServicesSAPNA NYC INCADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $12,500 · InternationalADHIKAAR F…INDO-CARIBBEAN ALLIANCE: $12,500 · Arts & CultureINDO-CARIB…INDIA HOME INC: $11,250 · Housing & ShelterINDIA HOM…SINGH FOUNDATION INC: $5,799 · Other
Human Services$93,987International$12,500Arts & Culture$12,500Housing & Shelter$11,250Other$5,799

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES: $35,237 over 1y, 41% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN NETWORK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIndo-American Center: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $11,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAPNA NYC INC: $11,250 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSINGH FOUNDATION INC: $5,799 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Asian American Federa…GofundmeorgProteus Fund IncTides FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Asian American Federation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian American Federation Inc · Gofundmeorg · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 South Asian Americans Leading Together funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Asian Americans Leading Together. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to South Asian Americans Leading Together?

    Find your warmest path to South Asian Americans Leading Together 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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