New York · Nonprofit
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,191,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,291,576). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Sakhi for South Asian Survivors Inc does
Mission
Sakhi for south asian survivors exists to represent the south asian and indo-caribbean diaspora in a survivor-led movement for gender justice and to honor the collective and inherent power of all survivors of violence.founded in 1989, sakhi was the first organization to break the silence surrounding gender-based violence within new york city's large south asian immigrant population.over the years, sakhi has worked to unify the movement for gender justice. In building justice and equity for survivors, sakhi actively invests in providing direct services, educating our community and building awareness that advocates for systems-change work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
1. Legal justice program: the legal justice program was launched in 2024, as a standalone immigration legal services initiative that provides direct representation to immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. The program was developed in response to a growing gap in services: while survivor need increased, many of our longstanding legal partners scaled back or paused immigration referrals due to funding cuts. The program is staffed by a full-time doj-accredited legal representative and receives supervision through a formal partnership with co-counsel nyc. 2. Helpline - sakhi expanded its helpline to 24/2 coverage, maintaining zero wait times and dual coverage through all shifts. 3) food justice - sakhi opened a satellite food bank location in kensington.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Economic empowerment program: sakhi's ee program is a pioneering model of linguistically-specific and culturally-responsive services that exists to ensure the financial stability and economic security of survivors of gender-based violence. Sakhi recognizes that economic control is a common form of gender-based violence. Between 94-99% of survivors of domestic violence have experienced financial abuse. Furthermore, between 21-60% of survivors of intimate partner violence lost their jobs due to reasons that stem from the abuse. Sakhi believes that self-determination and self-accessthe ability to make decisions for oneself and access a pathway to one's own goalsis key to an individual's long-term safety and security. Realizing the need for services aimed at improving survivors' economic opportunities, sakhi has provided skills-enhancement activities since the mid-1990s under the banner of the economic justice project. In 2001, these efforts were formalized under the economic empowerment program.sakhi supports survivors in navigating the public benefit system, co-creating individual career plans, and engaging in further case management services, such as legal financial referrals for…
$571,659 spentof which $18,139 as grants13% of program spendingAnti-violence program: sakhi creates a safe place for south asian and indo-caribbean survivors who have experienced abuse. Sakhi affirmatively supports all survivors of all genders, races, ethnicities, religions, sexualities, castes, or any other identity markers. Sakhi's anti-violence program offers an array of culturally-responsive, linguistically-appropriate services, including crisis intervention, safety-planning, and ongoing emotional support.in 2024, sakhi's anti-violence program (avp) advocates supported over 600 survivors of gender-based violence and their families with intensive one-on-one support and fielded thousands of calls on its helpline. Once a survivor accesses the helpline, an avp advocate conducts a needs assessment, and, where appropriate, makes referrals to internal programs such as mental health counseling, legal justice, economic empowerment, youth empowerment and housing programs.
$759,482 spentof which $21,800 as grants17% of program spendingHousing program: the overarching goal of sakhi's housing program is to provide assistance, resources, and support to individuals who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, while simultaneously building up their financial capacity and ability to provide for themselves and their families through the following programs:housing counseling and advocacy: sakhi's housing program provides survivors with highly personalized culturally and linguistically appropriate housing assistance to help them locate temporary shelter, apply for housing subsidies, find affordable housing programs, and access financial assistance for rent, utilities, security deposits, and moving costs.emergency short-term housing: sakhi provides short-term emergency rental assistance (1-3 months) to help survivors in danger to relocate immediately or to prevent eviction.transitional housing: sakhi offers survivors (and dependents) up to 24 months of rental assistance in a fair-market apartment of their choice. In addition, sakhi provides help with relocation, safety measures, security deposit payments, and initial utility payments.
$1,609,304 spentof which $923,403 as grants37% of program spendingCommunity engagement program (cep): systemic violence does not occur in a vacuum and it is not limited to the home. In the face of a culture that seeks to relegate gender-based violence to an obscure private life, sakhi seeks to make violence a public issue. As a gender justice organization, sakhi not only works one-on-one with survivors to address their individual needs and long-term safety, but also offers knowledge and tools for ending the cycle of violence through cep.sakhi aims to be an engaged, accountable, and visible presence in the south asian and indo-caribbean diaspora and the movement to end gender-based violence. Cep conducts grassroots outreach to:inform survivors about their rights and sakhi's services, raise awareness of violence within the south asian and indo-caribbean community, and conduct trainings on gender-based violence through a south asian and indo-caribbean lens.as the majority of the survivors with whom sakhi works hear about its services through word of mouth, cep participates in community events, and works with community-based organizations (cbos), religious institutions, and universities, by presenting in their spaces. Sakhi organizes and co-sponsors…
$1,463,748 spentof which $47,624 as grants33% of program spendingYouth empowerment program (yep): in 2016, sakhi developed yep as a way to support the healing of young survivors, recognizing that people of all genders and ages are affected by interpersonal and gender-based violence. In addition to supportive services for youth between the ages of 6-24, yep provides a safe space to freely explore issues around identity, family, relationships, and positive sexuality and gender. Sakhi seeks to support young people as they break cycles of interpersonal and gender-based violence through the following programs:individual youth mental health counseling: children who witness violence often show the same, if not more, severe symptoms of ptsd as a family member who experiences violence themselves. To support the needs of young survivors, sakhi offers individual mental health counseling for youth between the ages of 6-24 who have experienced interpersonal, domestic, or gender-based violence. These one-on-one, 45-minute sessions are typically held on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, depending on availability. Referrals & case management: for youth survivors of interpersonal, domestic, and gender-based violence, sakhi provides advocacy in the form of case…
Sexual assault program: the sexual assault program aims to provide trauma-, culturally-, and linguistically-responsive supportive services to nurture the healing process of survivors of sexual assault. Offerings include crisis intervention, safety planning, emotional support, accompaniments, access to mental and physical health care providers, and referrals to legal service providers and counseling.
Food justice program (fjp): sakhi's food justice program seeks to make more nutritious, shelf-stable, easy-to-prepare, and culturally familiar food available to survivors who face housing, food, and income instability. This program was born out of sakhi's understanding of how destabilizing it is to be without basic necessities, particularly while recovering from trauma. Fjp represents a crucial element of sakhi's trauma-responsive programming. As food offers a piece of home, sakhi seeks to ensure that survivors have access to the foods that they find nourishing and comforting.addressing the food insecurity of the pandemic, sakhi began distributing food to clients at their home, increasing the food quantities for the delivery of each order, and creating a rotation so clients could receive food regularly and safely. Eventually, as restrictions eased, sakhi began to offer food subsidies that enabled survivors to purchase their own groceries.
Legal justice program: the legal justice program was launched in 2024,as a standalone immigration legal services initiative that provides direct representation to immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. The program was developed in response to a growing gap in services: while survivor need increased, many of our longstanding legal partners scaled back or paused immigration referrals due to funding cuts. The program is staffed by a full-time doj-accredited legal representative and receives supervision through a formal partnership with co-counsel nyc.
Mental health counseling program: gender-based violence is a public health issue that affects all communities. Gender, patriarchy, and culture interact in complex ways that influence physical and mental health. As a result of their experiences as immigrants and people of color, south asian and indo-caribbean survivors often suffer from unaddressed complex trauma. Additionally, in many communities, addressing mental health, like addressing gender-based violence, can attract stigma, rejection, and further isolation.sakhi has long been a part of the movement to open a dialogue around mental health, especially as it relates to gender-based violence. As trauma-responsive service providers, sakhi understands the importance of having mental health services be available to the community. Mental health services are neither affordable nor accessible for most u.s. Residents. Furthermore, those services that are available are rarely culturally- or linguistically-specific. Therefore, sakhi's mental health program offers:individual counseling: in sakhi's counseling program, evidence-based practices (ebp) are uniquely honed to include south asian and indo-caribbean perspectives. Counseling…
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,404,193.
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 $4.4M to $7.6M (+73%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 35% · 2021 51% · 2022 63% · 2023 43% · 2024 48% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kavita Mehra
Executive director
Board chair
Beesham A Seecharan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $127k → $1.6M.
21 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. 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
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 34% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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
48% of SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
63% of SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.8M
- Department of Justice$3.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC?
- SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,191,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,291,576). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $9,191,944 in grants to SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,291,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 79 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing