New York · Nonprofit
SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC
SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,803,033 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($1,661,585). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What South Asian Council for Social Services Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2000, the south asian council for social services (sacss) is a community-based nonprofit empowering more than 300,000 underserved new yorkers each year. Located in flushing, queens. (continued on schedule o).sacss's mission is to integrate south asians and other underserved communities into the civic and economic fabric of new york city through equitable access to vital resources and opportunities. Sacss provides healthcare access, food justice through its culturally responsive food pantry, senior wellness, workforce development, women's empowerment, youth leadership, legal guidance, and civic engagement. Committed to inclusion, sacss provides all services in more than 20 languages, ensuring that every community member regardless of background or language can access the tools and support needed to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary activities of the organization are access to healthcare(pre and post enrollment), food security, job readiness, senior services, education programs including computer literacy and esol classes, civic engagement, case management, and other social services. Sacss assists over 200,000 individuals annually, and has staff that speak over 20 different languages to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of our diverse clientele. Food security - the sacss food pantry provides nutritious, culturally appropriate groceries to more than 2,200 families every week. Open every wednesday and thursday, the pantry offers both immediate relief and long-term food security to new yorkers in need. Reflecting the diversity of our communities, our pantry stocks items that honor cultural and dietary traditions such as oil, rice, lentils, spices, etc. In 2025, sacss distributed over 5 million pounds of groceries, reaching more than 7,100 families approximately 28,000 individuals, including those with disabilities or chronic illnesses, who received home deliveries. Healthcare access - the healthcare access team at sacss helps individuals and families navigate, understand, and maximize their…
$3,653,422 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,653,422.
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 $2.1M to $5.2M (+142%).
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: 2017 35% · 2018 62% · 2019 80% · 2020 20% · 2021 36% · 2022 23% · 2023 86% · 2024 37% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Sudha Acharya Mba
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $35k → $1.6M.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC 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
64% 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 COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 54% · 2019 76% · 2020 64% · 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 26% — 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
53% of SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC?
- SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,803,033 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($1,661,585). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $7,803,033 in grants to SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,661,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing