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Vikalp Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0172% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$60kArts & Culture$37kEducation$20kReligion$12kInternational$8kHuman Services$2kSocial Science$500Civil Rights$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$401k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROME HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION$6,000
RAJASTHAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMER$3,001
Individual grant recipient$1,800
SRI VEDA GAYATRI TEMPLE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$501
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA$500
DHARMANSH USA$500
RAD M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION$500
IALI INDIA ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLA$100
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 (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST MATHIAS CHARITIES INC: $250 → 28%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

NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.
$135k · 14 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
27

Total granted

$135k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+18%

Still filing today

36%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionSocial ScienceInternationalOther
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

  • HA
    HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +79%
  • RM
    ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +351%
  • BS
    BHARAT SWABHIMAN OVERSEAS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • RM
    RED M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION F
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FILM INDIA STUDIES
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • RM
    RAD M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION F
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Forum for Religious Freedom

Foster & protect the religious diversity and pluralism, protecting, preserving, rejuvenating and disseminating information about non aggressive religious traditions

Religion
3
Shri Harinam Sankirtan Mandal Amin

Promote hindu religion

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4
Anandamayi Adhyatmika Vidya Nilayam

Support Free Education in Sanskrit and other Indian languages and Vedic literature teaching.

Arts & Culture
5
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
6
World Hindu Foundation of America

World hindu foundation of america, inc. endeavors to promote networking amongst practitioners of sanatan hindu dharma through community-oriented social, spiritual, cultural, intellectual and educational activities.

Public Benefit
7
India Heritage Research Foundation

To promote the understanding of india's cultural traditions, universal understanding and harmony; to publish the encyclopedia of hinduism; to organize lectures and seminars on various aspects of indian traditions; charitable activities…

Religion
8
Shri Yoganand Seva Samaj Trust Inc

Collect donations from US devotees and contribute them 100% towards welfare and charitable activities performed by Shri Yoganand Seva Samaj Trust, India

Arts & Culture
9
Swami Dayanand Education Foundation
Education
10
Vedic Preservation Initiative Chhabra

Maintened a website to document and present our research, popular vedic popularvedicscience.com. added 200 new articles and the website is now a top ranking site

Arts & Culture
11
International Swaminarayan Satsang Org

Isso conduct religious services and activities following the teachings and principles of swaminarayan sect of a hindu religion founded and ordained by lord shri sahajanand swami, also known as lord swaminarayan.

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12
Hari Smruti International Inc

Hari smruti international, inc. (hsi) is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization that believes in the teachings and preachings of lord shri swaminarayan and the hindu philosophy based on sanathana dharma (ageless codes of…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hindu American Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Rochester. 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

19 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. 19 of the 47 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $57,130 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAIA: $19,550 · OtherAIARED M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION F: $15,000 · OtherRED M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION FROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · OtherROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCSTONY BROOK FILM INDIA STUDIES: $10,000 · OtherSTONY BROOK FILM INDIA STUDIESRAD M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION F: $10,000 · OtherRAD M AGARWAL MD GASTRO EDUCATION FIndividual grant recipient: $5,975 · Other+26 more: $31,614 · Other+26 moreHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $18,927 · Arts & CultureHINDU AMERICAN…BHARAT SWABHIMAN OVERSEAS INC: $6,200 · Arts & CultureBHARAT SWABHIM…MAHARISHI DAYANAND VEDIC MISSION INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $600 · Arts & CultureNORTH AMERICAN JAT CHARITIES INC: $7,001 · EducationADVANCEMENT FOR RURAL KIDS INC: $5,000 · EducationArpan Foundation Inc: $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,500 · EducationDROPADI JIGYASU ASHRAM INC: $5,000 · ReligionSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $500 · HealthWYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER: $200 · HealthAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $500 · Social ScienceDHARMANSH USA INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$161,769Arts & Culture$26,727Education$15,501Religion$5,000Health$700Social Science$500Philanthropy$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $18,927 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN JAT CHARITIES INC: $7,001 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBHARAT SWABHIMAN OVERSEAS INC: $6,200 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDROPADI JIGYASU ASHRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetADVANCEMENT FOR RURAL KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArpan Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI DAYANAND VEDIC MISSION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDHARMANSH USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOKA DHARMA SEVA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHIAS CHARITIES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHINDU SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH U S A INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIA ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLAND: $100 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.

  • Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICAN JAT CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BHARAT SWABHIMAN OVERSEAS INC ↗
  • Who funds DROPADI JIGYASU ASHRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCEMENT FOR RURAL KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ↗
  • Who funds Arpan Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds MAHARISHI DAYANAND VEDIC MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DHARMANSH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOKA DHARMA SEVA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗

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.

Arya Family FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arya Family FoundationNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arya Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Vikalp Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vikalp Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 47 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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