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The Sharda Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sharda Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$127kReligion$26kEducation$18kHuman Services$12kHealth$10kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDO-AMERICAN CENTER INC$37,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,035
PRATHAM USA$5,000
EDU-GIRLS INC$5,000
SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC$5,000
GLOBAL WOMENS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK$4,500
NORTHERN VIRGINIA BENGALI ASS$4,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 8%NORTHERN VIRGINIA BENGALI ASS: $5k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA BENGALI ASS: $2k → 6%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 4 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$144k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-16%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • IA
    Indian American Business Impact Group Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $91k · 43% of their budget
  • TF
    TIE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $36k · revenue +48%
  • BF
    Blossoms For Pink
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k

Funded once

  • VH
    VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • BS
    BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -64%
  • NA
    NEPALI AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
2
Sindhi Association of North America
—
3
Sarayu Foundation Usa Inc
Human Services
4
Bhindeshi

Bhindeshi is a Washington State Registered organization of people of South Asian origin based in greater Bothell area of Washington, USA. Bhindeshi intends to serve as a socio-cultural platform to promote the rich cultural heritage of…

Arts & Culture
5
Prasaad
Religion
6
Purbasha Inc

Charitable Organization for Community

Religion
7
Prakasam Global Nri Forum

Help poor students in education.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Punya Foundation Us

Server social and spritual need of Bhutanese Nepali diaspora

Education
9
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
10
Jain Network Usa

promote jain activities

Religion
11
Indo- American Foundation Inc
—
12
Indian American Forum

promote the cultural, secular heritage

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blossoms for Pink. 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 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indian American Business Impact Group Foundation: $91,000 · Community ImprovementIndian American Business Impact Group FoundationTIE FOUNDATION: $36,000 · Community ImprovementTIE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $38,035 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · OtherVISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERI…GLOBAL WOMENS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $4,500 · OtherGLOBAL WOMENS EMPOWERMENT NETW…EVERYONES LIBRARY: $3,000 · OtherEDU-GIRLS INC: $5,000 · OtherEDU-GIRLS INC+2 more: $3,000 · OtherINDO-AMERICAN CENTER INC: $37,000 · EducationINDO-AMERICAN CENTER…BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationBOWIE STATE UNIVERSI…CAPITAL IIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · EducationCAPITAL IIT ALUMNI A…Northern Virginia Bengali Association: $6,500 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesBlossoms For Pink: $10,000 · HealthNEPALI AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePRATHAM USA: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$127,000Other$78,535Education$52,000Human Services$11,500Health$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndian American Business Impact Group Foundation: $91,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTIE FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetVISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBlossoms For Pink: $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEPALI AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNorthern Virginia Bengali Association: $6,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCAPITAL IIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSRI SATHYANARAYANASWAMY SEVA SANNID: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Sharda Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sharda Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 The Sharda Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sharda Family 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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