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California · Nonprofit
DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION (California) is funded by 10 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $591,902 in grants to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($249,228). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,868 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,868 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
$27k from 3 funders in 2023, up from $41k and 3 in 2020.
8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 65% · 2022 77% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
57% of DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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.
DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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. view filing