Texas · Nonprofit
DAKSHANA FOUNDATION
DAKSHANA FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,933 to it, the largest being INDIRA FOUNDATION ($536,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Dakshana Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation is a philanthropic foundation focused on alleviating poverty. It is focused on providing world-class educational opportunities to economically and socially disadvantaged gifted children from impoverished rural backgrounds in India.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dakshanas specific purpose is to identify destitute but intellectually gifted orphans and underprivileged children in India. The Foundation will build residential school(s) in India and sending these gifted orphans to these schools. Dakshana will pay for all tuition and living expenses through grade 12 for all such selected Dakshana scholars.The Foundation will also form a partnership with leading student loan lenders. Afterhigh school, Dakshana will, if required, co-sign student loans for all Dakshana scholars to attend any accredited university on a combination of scholarships and loans.The Foundation hopes to build a very deep relationship with the Dakshana scholarsthroughout their entire lives. Dakshana will impose no legal obligation on the scholars but clearly outline a moral obligation to give back 10% of lifetime earnings to the Foundation so that more scholars can be supported by the Foundation. The Foundations vision is that the scholars of today will eventually sponsor a scholar in the future. This will ultimately result in production of more Dakshana scholars every year.In India, every year, less than 2,000 gifted scholars graduated from the Indian Institute of…
$450,474 spentof which $450,474 as grants$3,102,124 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $450,474.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $22M (+37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
77% of DAKSHANA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Mohnish Pabrai
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $58k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Om and Shaku Pabrai Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DAKSHANA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DAKSHANA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DAKSHANA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DAKSHANA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 88% · 2019 99% · 2020 84% · 2021 52% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of DAKSHANA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of DAKSHANA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $677k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $912k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DAKSHANA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DAKSHANA FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dalal Street LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAKSHANA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DAKSHANA FOUNDATION?
- DAKSHANA FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,933 to it, the largest being INDIRA FOUNDATION ($536,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAKSHANA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,588,933 in grants to DAKSHANA FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAKSHANA FOUNDATION?
- INDIRA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $536,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAKSHANA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing