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Swami Dayanand Education Foundation

EDUCATIONAL 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.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$142kHealth$2k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of South Carolina$2,000
Texas Women University$2,000
The George Washington University$2,000
Yale University$2,000
University of Houston$2,000
Baylor University$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Vanderbilt University$2,000
Lone Star College-North Harris$2,000
University of Houston$2,000
The University of Texas At Austin$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 22%COLLINS AGYEMAN: $2k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UTSA: $4k → 16%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%RICE UNIVERISITY: $2k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%The George Washington University: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2k → 14%ALBION COLLEGE: $2k → 14%OBERLIN'S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: $2k → 13%THE GEROGE WASHINGTON UNIVERISTY: $2k → 4%BURSAR'S OFFICE BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 22%TAHA JAFRY: $2k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%UTSA Fiscal Office: $2k → 16%Baylor University: $2k → 16%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 20%University of South Carolina: $2k → 16%OBERLIN'S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: $2k → 13%BURSAR'S OFFICE BOWDIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%PATRICK TRAN: $2k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TX AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SA: $2k → 16%VICTORIA BRIGGS: $1k → 16%OBERLIN'S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: $2k → 13%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $2k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%UTSA FISCAL OFFI CE: $2k → 16%HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%The University of Texas At Austin: $2k → 10%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%LONE STAR COLLEG- NORTH HARRIS: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $2k → 10%PRATIK SHARMA: $2k → 16%Lone Star College-North Harris: $2k → 16%GRISHMA KADEL: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 13 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$88k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+23%

Still filing today

23%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

  • UO
    University of Houston
    4× · 2020–2024 · $12k
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $12k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $12k

Funded once

  • U
    UTSA
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +96%
  • SR
    SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

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 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Houston: $12,000 · OtherUniversity of HoustonTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYOBERLIN'S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: $6,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMEN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · OtherSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherUTSA: $4,000 · OtherUniversity of South Carolina: $4,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Other+23 more: $42,000 · Other+23 moreVanderbilt University: $6,000 · EducationVanderbilt Univers…Trinity University: $4,000 · EducationTrinity UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYALBION COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationALBION COLLEGEThe George Washington University: $2,000 · EducationThe George Washing…Cornell University: $2,000 · EducationCornell University
Other$120,000Education$24,000

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 budgetVanderbilt University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Swami Dayanand Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Swami Dayanand Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Swami Dayanand Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Swami Dayanand Education Foundation 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 41 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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