New Jersey · Nonprofit
Sikh Research Institute
Sikh Research Institute (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,464,874 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($310,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Sikh Research Institute does
Mission
To provide educational resources to sikhs to lead a guru-inspired life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The guru granth sahib project (tggsp): tggsp is a large undertaking to develop comprehensive annotation in contemporary english and panjabi of each word: etymology, grammar, word meaning with extensive footnotes as well as three additional dimensions: musical, poetical and historical. Original text accompanies contemporary calligraphy as well transcription. The aforesaid research fuels literal translation and interpretive transcreation. For a global audience, we are also including english commentary. This is a long-term legacy project. More on the project here: https:// www. Gurugranthsahib. Io/
$387,752 spent37% of program spendingContent: content includes awareness through videos, blogs & articles, sotp programs, sojhi teacher training, parents and k-12 workshops, naujavan sojhi curriculum, & various online courses for all generations.
$209,262 spent20% of program spendingCommunity: includes saneha, sidak, mahima, liv webinars, conferences & exhibitions. Events are hosted and supported by Sikh Research Institute with the assistance of local organizers.
$189,962 spent$1,300 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services
$266,701 spentof which $123,466 as grants$11,970 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,053,677.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+38%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Sikh Research Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Harinder Singh Jhansi
Interim CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $45k → $276k.
10 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Sikh Research Institute’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
Sikh Research Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 Sikh Research Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 37% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 48% · 2022 32% · 2023 36% — 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 Sikh Research Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
58% of Sikh Research Institute'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 $610k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $855k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Sikh Research Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Sikh Research Institute
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sikh Research Institute: 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 Sikh Research Institute?
- Sikh Research Institute (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,464,874 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($310,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sikh Research Institute have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,464,874 in grants to Sikh Research Institute, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sikh Research Institute?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sikh Research Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), 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