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Kusum Jayesh Aseem Seva Charitable

Cupertino, CA · EIN 22-3696326. Reported 38 grants totalling $198,223 to 25 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$198,223granted, 2021-2024
25recipients, as named on its returns
31%of grantees funded again the next year

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Kusum Jayesh Aseem Seva Charitable did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,001; the smallest was $100 and the largest $31,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
19 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Sankara Eye FoundationMilpitas, CA$63,000332024
Muni Seva Charitable FoundationDayton, OH$22,000112022
Jain Center of NjEssex Fells, NJ$16,963332023
Ucsf FoundationSan Francisco, CA$15,000222023
Life GlobalParamus, NJ$14,523222023
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$11,000112024
Community Seva IncSan Jose, CA$10,501222024
Arihanta InstituteSan Jose, CA$10,002222024
SiddhachalamBlairstown, NJ$7,200222023
Interfaith Community ServicesTucson, AZ$3,830112023
Akshaya PatraCanoga Park, CA$3,000112022
Hi 5 Youth FoundationSaratoga, CA$3,000332024
Share & Care FoundationRochelle Park, NJ$3,000222023
Listin Foundation IncGreenwood Village, CO$2,500112024
Narkar Health FoundationDowney, CA$2,500112024
Gujarati Literary Academy of NaWayne, NJ$2,001112023
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$2,000222023
St Judge Children's ResearchMemphis, TN$2,000112023
Development in LiteracyIrvine, CA$1,001112024
Bj Medical College Alumni AssociatiMontvale, NJ$1,000112021
India Community CenterMilpitas, CA$1,000112024
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyRye Brook, NY$501112022
Saloni Heart FoundationSan Jose, CA$500112022
Vraj Hindu TempleSchuylkill Haven, PA$101112021
Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire DeptCedar Grove, NJ$100112021

10 of 25 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 31%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

International Affairs
6 grants
Education
5 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20216$6,452$1,000
202210$75,783$6,861
202313$66,486$3,000
20249$49,502$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

55% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

California
$110K
New Jersey
$45K
Ohio
$22K
New York
$14K
Arizona
$4K
Colorado
$2K
Tennessee
$2K
Pennsylvania
$101

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund5 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Kusum Jayesh Aseem Seva Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 10181 Bilich Pl, Cupertino, CA, 95014. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 22-3696326 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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