Virginia · Nonprofit
GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES
GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $293k
What Guru Angad Institute of Sikh Studies does
Mission
The Guru Angad Institute of Sikh Studies (gaiss) is a non-profit faith-based educational organization with a mission to enshrine an appreciation and understanding of sikh heritage, language and music among children and adults.the organization conducts music, language & sikh studies teaching classes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During the year, the organization had 125 members and 98 students in ten different levels. The organization hosted volunteers, conducted classes for children and adults to teach them the basic tenets of sikh heritage and music, how it benefits humanity, and how its understanding and practice can lead to a peaceful and better world for all.
$136,265 spentof which $28,669 as grants$155,586 earned by the program80% of program spendingThe purpose of this program is to support community-based development that promote sustainable primary health and education services, and revitalization of the sikh community's heritage. The organization also screened documentaries to bring about awareness and understanding of issues related to the sikh community.
$34,066 spent$38,897 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,331.
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 $636k to $590k (−7%).
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.
0% of GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $25.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES’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
GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES: 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 GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES?
- GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,742 in grants to GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GURU ANGAD INSTITUTE OF SIKH STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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