Delaware · Nonprofit
South Asia Speaks Foundation
South Asia Speaks Foundation (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Foundation to Promote Open Society ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
South Asia Speaks Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of South Asia Speaks Foundation’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
South Asia Speaks Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
South Asia Speaks Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Poetry Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sdk Foundation for Human Dignityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Speaks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Agarwal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rona Jaffe Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
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 South Asia Speaks 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 South Asia Speaks 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds South Asia Speaks Foundation?
- South Asia Speaks Foundation (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being Foundation to Promote Open Society ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Asia Speaks Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $175,000 in grants to South Asia Speaks Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South Asia Speaks Foundation?
- Foundation to Promote Open Society is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Asia Speaks Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing