Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,103,188 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,343,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What South Asian American Digital Archive Nfp does
Mission
To create a more inclusive society by giving voice to south asian americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Expansion of saada's digital archive to include more stories from south asian americans, including oral history interviews, photographs, and other community materials. Digital storytelling projects to document the experiences of south asian americans during the current moment, including letters from 6' away (capturing south asian american experiences during the covid-19 pandemic) and election stories (collecting reflections on the 2020 presidential election). Online events on immigration history, family archiving, and other topics attracting audiences in the hundreds from across the country.
$588,382 spent$71,121 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $588,382.
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.
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 $586k to $1.7M (+188%).
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: 2019 14% · 2020 23% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 14% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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 15 funders, grant income rose $65k → $786k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 48% · 2020 87% · 2021 64% · 2022 30% · 2023 55% — 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
45% of SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k 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
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$991k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$770k
- National Archives and Records Administration$175k
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.
Organizations like SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP: 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 SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP?
- SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,103,188 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,343,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,103,188 in grants to SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,343,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 31 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