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Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation

Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE CHANDA FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$25k
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25k to it.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,168 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2025 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($46k)
20242025
Revenue (100)Net assets (100)
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

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.

Organizations like Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation

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.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute of Knowledge IOK 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 Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation?
Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE CHANDA FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation?
THE CHANDA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Institute of Knowledge IOK Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing