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The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity

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.

$270k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$203,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$5.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$270k45%
FY20235$200k20%
FY20225$16k40%
FY20216$82k50%
FY20206$138k17%
FY201910$121k50%
FY20186$16k67%
FY20179$43kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$724kReligion$124kHealth$26kInternational$3kEducation$3kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$1kCrime & Legal$750Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artistic Freedom Initiative Inc$653,000552%
Hindu Samaj Inc$119,4278n/a
Taara Inc$70,05058%
The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc$4,10030%
Rutgers University Foundation$2,50010%
Sankara Eye Foundation USA$1,50010%
Durga Temple of Westchester Inc$1,1001n/a
Friends of the Poor$1,00110%
Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc$1,00010%
Indo American Arts Council Inc$1,00010%
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artistic Freedom Initiative Inc$653,000552%
Hindu Samaj Inc$119,4278n/a
Taara Inc$70,05058%
The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc$4,10030%
Rutgers University Foundation$2,50010%
Sankara Eye Foundation USA$1,50010%
Durga Temple of Westchester Inc$1,1001n/a
Friends of the Poor$1,00110%
Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc$1,00010%
Indo American Arts Council Inc$1,00010%
International Human Benefit Servicesinc$75020%
Just Rights for Children International Inc$50011%
Manavi Inc$40040%
Share and Care Foundation for India$40020%
ZINDAGI Inc$3502n/a
Paramus Sunrise Rotary Foundation$1501n/a
Saddle River Fire Association Inc$15020%
Tibet Justice Center$1001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArtistic Freedom Initiative Inc: $653,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetTaara Inc: $70,050 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetThe Valley Hospital Foundation Inc: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSankara Eye Foundation USA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Poor: $1,001 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndo American Arts Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Human Benefit Servicesinc: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJust Rights for Children International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetManavi Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShare and Care Foundation for India: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaddle River Fire Association Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity

How much does The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity give?
The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity reported 11 grants totaling $269,751 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Religion (14%), Health (3%).
Who are The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Artistic Freedom Initiative Inc ($653k), Hindu Samaj Inc ($119k), Taara Inc ($70k).
Does The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity based?
The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignity is based in NJ.

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 30 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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