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SEVALAYA USA INC

SEVALAYA USA INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,252 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($198,272). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$367k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$652k
Net assets
$10k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Sevalaya USA Inc does

Mission

The organization's goal is to make quality education accessible to underserved populations, provide disaster relief, support rural development, and provide food and shelter to the destitute elderly

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Project Education GrantsMade grants to support 572 students from impoverished backgrounds studying in Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School in Tamil Nadu, India and set up education endowments to provide sustained support for Sevalaya USAs Project Education. In June 2025, in Std. XII exam, the school had a pass rate of 99.4%. In Std. X exam, the school had a 100% pass rate. Awarded grants to support sports training for students, which included buying sports equipment and training students to participate in tournaments.

    $182,650 spent
    57% of program spending
  2. Project Human ServicesWith generous grants from Give Foundation toward three human service projects, Gift shelter to a destitute child, Mission No Child Homeless Sevalaya, and Mission: Elderly Lives Matter Sevalaya, we have supported the children in the homes in Kasuva campus and the seniors living in the senior homes in the Kasuva Campus.Installed free sanitary pad dispensers and incinerator machines in the women' s toilets in Sevalaya School and skills training centers.As part of our holiday drive, we donated comforters, bed sheets, towels, granola bars, fruit snacks, comforters, sheet sets, bathmats, diapers, trash bins, and blankets to San Jose Family Supportive Housing .

    $91,566 spent
    28% of program spending
  3. Project Education Teacher Training Teachers at Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School in Tamil Nadu received training with a generous grant of $27500 from Mara Breech foundation

    $27,500 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. Project Senior Home Grants: We sponsored food, basic needs and medical care to homeless seniors living in senior homes on Kasuva campus, in Zamin Endathur and in Thanjavur.

    $8,850 spent
    3% of program spending
  5. Project EKAM Community College Project: EKAM USA gave a generous grant toward the EKAM USA vocational training project, which aimed to train 120 students in rural areas for six months at a Community college in the Kasuva campus. As of March 2025, the second course of vocational training was also completed as of March 2025. Out of the 70 students who were trained in electrical work and Refrigerator & AC repairs, 60 of those students found employment after completing the training.

    $5,241 spent
    2% of program spending
  6. Project Mental Health ClinicMade grants to Mahatma Gandhi Medical Centre to provide mental health services to the students of Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School and to rural women who are farmers and caregivers. Rural women face challenges including gender discrimination, poverty, and poor physical health. Besides these, they are also exposed to domestic violence, which is one of the main risk factors for common mental disorders in rural women. This project offers individual sessions and group sessions for patients. Every month, an average of 300 people benefit from this clinic.

    $5,000 spent
    2% of program spending
  7. Project Disaster Relief GrantsSponsored food and other necessities distribution during Wayanad floods.

    $500 spent
    0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $321,307.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2019 Revenue 275 ($140k) Expenses 307 ($139k) Net assets 125 ($7k)2020 Revenue 391 ($200k) Expenses 441 ($199k) Net assets 135 ($8k)2021 Revenue 451 ($231k) Expenses 510 ($231k) Net assets 136 ($8k)2022 Revenue 711 ($363k) Expenses 816 ($369k) Net assets 46 ($3k)2023 Revenue 506 ($258k) Expenses 557 ($252k) Net assets 156 ($9k)2024 Revenue 435 ($222k) Expenses 490 ($221k) Net assets 175 ($10k)2025 Revenue 618 ($316k) Expenses 713 ($322k) Net assets 66 ($4k)2026 Revenue 718 ($367k) Expenses 799 ($361k) Net assets 163 ($10k)
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Revenue (718)Expenses (799)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3k to $9k (+241%).

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$7k
$8k
$8k
$3k
$9k
$10k
$4k
$10k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2019
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SEVALAYA USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’18
$1k
’19
$560
’20
$87
’21
−$5k
’22
$7k
’23
$1k
’24
−$6k
’25
$6k
’26
0.3
months of
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $99k.

8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SEVALAYA 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

SEVALAYA USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 SEVALAYA USA INC.

30%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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

100% of SEVALAYA USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

90% of SEVALAYA 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 $66k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $586k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SEVALAYA USA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 52 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 52 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SEVALAYA USA INC?
SEVALAYA USA INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,252 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($198,272). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SEVALAYA USA INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $652,252 in grants to SEVALAYA USA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEVALAYA USA INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEVALAYA USA INC 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 13 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