Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SAMARTHANAM USA INC
SAMARTHANAM USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $778,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($292,583). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $778k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Samarthanam USA Inc does
Mission
To empower the visually impaired, disabled and underprivileged people through developmental initiatives focusing on educational,social,employment, cultural and technological activities in USA and India.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Samarthanam USA partnered with the Cricket Association for the Blind-USA (CABUSA),and formed the first ever USA Womens Blind Cricket National Team.This partnership culminated in Team USAs participation in the inaugural Womens T20 World Cup for the Blind,which was held in India and Sri Lanka in November 2025.Prior to that, Samarthanam USA in partnership with CABUSA conducted impactful cricket camps in Newyork and San Jose, California, which played a crucial role in identifying and shortlisting talented women cricketers with visual impairments for upcoming national and international opportunities.A total of 38 players participated across both camps, 15 of whom were selected based on fitness, learning ability and commitment to future training and competition, and 2 others based on their interest and availability, totaling 17 players.Program expenses included training fees, participant travel to the training camps, hotel accomodation, meals, ground space rental, physical therapists, visa fees to India & Sri Lanka.The purpose of the program was to build a national womens blind cricket team in the United States, which has laid the foundation for long term inclusion, empowerment and sporting excellence.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Samarthanam USA partnered with the Cricket Association for the Blind-USA,and formed the first ever USA Womens Blind Cricket National Team.This partnership culminated in Team USAs participation in the inaugural Womens T20 World Cup for the Blind,which was held in India and Sri Lanka in November 2025.As the first ever effort to build a national womens blind cricket team in the USA, this program laid the foundation for long term inclusion, empowerment and sporting excellence. Program expenses included cricket camp expenses,participant training fees,ground rentals, travel costs to training camps around the US,as well to India and Sri Lanka for the World Cup Tournament.
$444,358 spentof which $230,000 as grants$482,248 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $444,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $65k to $138k (+111%).
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.
100% of SAMARTHANAM USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $600 → $294k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SAMARTHANAM USA INC’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
SAMARTHANAM USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 SAMARTHANAM USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2022 38% · 2023 84% — 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
17% of SAMARTHANAM USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
92% of SAMARTHANAM USA INC'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 $65k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SAMARTHANAM USA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAMARTHANAM USA INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SAMARTHANAM USA INC: 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 SAMARTHANAM USA INC?
- SAMARTHANAM USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $778,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($292,583). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAMARTHANAM USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $778,232 in grants to SAMARTHANAM USA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARTHANAM USA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $292,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARTHANAM USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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