Knowns and Unknowns

Gospel for Asia and Mission India, which promote Christianity in India, with $58 million and $11 million in revenues respectively in 2008 are the largest nonprofits focused on India. They are followed by the far better known Pratham ($10 million) and the American India Foundation ($10 million). But the fifth largest Indian foundation by revenues, the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation ($9.6 million), which provides interest free loans to college students in Texas, remains virtually unknown to most Indian Americans.

The Little India investigation identified 49 Indian nonprofits with annual revenues exceeding $1 million, ranging from the well known Seva Foundation ($4 million), Asha for Education $3.3 million), Sankara Eye Foundation ($3 million) and Share and Care Foundation ($2.2 million) to such virtual unknowns as Bodhgaya Religious Trust ($4 million), Dakshana Foundation ($2.6 million), The Prem Rawat Foundation ($2.4 million), the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team ($2 million), etc.

With almost $21 million in assets, the India Community Center of Milpitas, Calif., is by far the largest Indian nonprofit by assets. It is followed by the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation ($16 million), Gospel for Asia ($13 million), Indian Muslim Relief And Charities ($13 million), Pratham USA $11 million), Art of Living Foundation ($10 million) and the American India Foundation ($9 million). In all 61 Indian nonprofits and foundations had assets in excess on $1 million.