New York · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,089,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,198,433). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 210
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $31M
What The American India Foundation does
Mission
The American India Foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education:1. Lampaif's learning and migration program (lamp) provides children in areas of high seasonal migration with access to continuous, quality, and age-appropriate education. Lamp ensures continuity in children's education through the learning enrichment program to offset learning regression or gaps. The program also delivers remedial learning to ensure age and grade-appropriate education for children. 2. Dedigital equalizer (de) bridges the educational and digital divide by bringing technology to schools across india and by using it to transform teaching and learning into a collaborative, project-based approach. It leverages technology to empower under-resourced government schools across india to address learning gaps, improve learning outcomes, and equip students with stem education and 21st-century skills. Through innovations such as flipped classrooms, the de way of teaching (dewot), and the stem innovation and learning center (silc), the program integrates techno-pedagogy and digital content into the teaching-learning process across government schools while bolstering teachers and educators' capacities.
$4,092,336 spentof which $2,616,556 as grants26% of program spendingPublic health:designed to reduce maternal and child mortality in rural, impoverished areas, the maternal and newborn survival initiative (mansi) leverages a public-private partnership model to provide the resources and support needed to empower local communities to care for their mothers and children while strengthening the local health system. Mansi provides preventative and curative care for both mothers and newborns, all the way from the individual household to government health facilities to ensure new mothers and infants have the care they need to prepare for, survive, and thrive during and after pregnancy.aif's integrated program, sneh addresses the problem of malnutrition and works to increase school readiness for children under 6 years. The saheli integrated program empowers adolescents by tackling challenges at the intersection of health, education, and livelihoods.
$3,306,401 spentof which $2,702,634 as grants21% of program spendingLivelihood:aif's livelihood programs include two signature initiatives: market aligned skills training (mast) and ability-based livelihood empowerment (able).1. Mastthe market aligned skills training (mast) works to provide unemployed young people with comprehensive skills training that equips them with the knowledge and expertise needed to secure employment and succeed on the job. Mast not only meets the growing demands of the diversifying local industries across the country, it harnesses india's youth population to become powerful engines of the economy.2. Ableability-based livelihood empowerment (able ensures that persons with disabilities are able to obtain equal, inclusive, and dignified livelihoods. Empowering india's differently-abled, able builds skill sets and facilitates access to employment, while also promoting acceptance of disabilities in the larger community.
$4,151,568 spentof which $3,540,013 as grants27% of program spendingBanyan impact fellowship:aif's banyan fellowship nurtures the next generation of leaders committed to impactful change, while strengthening the partnership between the world's two largest democracies - the u.s. And india.the banyan fellowship for service in india is an immersive, 10-month volunteer service program matching young professionals in the u.s. With indian development organizations. Fellows work on scalable and sustainable development projects in the fields of education, livelihoods, and public health. These fellows collaborate with other civil society leaders and form partnerships to build capacities, exchange knowledge and skills to advance social and economic development.
$4,011,681 spentof which $2,838,407 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,561,986.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $35M (+213%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nishant Pandey
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $7.8M.
31 of 210 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 210 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
THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 25% · 2019 31% · 2020 15% · 2021 36% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
55% of THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION'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 $29M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
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
87% 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 42 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION?
- THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,089,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,198,433). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 210 organizations giving $65,089,595 in grants to THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $14,198,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION 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 210 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