About Ankitara Foundation
Ankitara Foundation concentrates most of its giving on spiritual and faith-based organizations, supplemented by targeted gifts to health, youth, and STEM education causes. Grants are relatively few and sizable, often supporting organizations that promote spiritual awareness, hospital/health system support, girls' technology education, and residential care for children. The foundation favors mission-driven nonprofits that blend spiritual or developmental programming with service delivery.
Focus Areas
Spiritual/faith-based organizations and spiritual awareness initiativesHospital and health system support (acute care philanthropy)Girls' coding and STEM education programsResidential care and family-strengthening programs for vulnerable children
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (general grantees)students / scholarship recipientsorganizational grantees with broad missions
Giving Approach
Concentrated, small portfolio of relatively large grants (six grants totaling $356K) with repeat funding to spiritual organizations; funding is focused rather than broadly dispersed.
About Ankitara Foundation
A $125,000 general-support grant to Divine Will Foundation stands out as the largest recent award from Ankitara Foundation, and it points to a funder that gives in relatively concentrated, mission-aligned blocks. Across the recent grants list, the foundation backs spiritual and faith-based organizations alongside education, health, and child-focused nonprofits, with several awards sized at $25,000 to $50,000 and a wider set of $10,000 grants. The giving pattern includes organizations working in spiritual awareness, hospital support, girls’ coding and STEM education, and residential care for children. The foundation’s recent support for World Spiritual Awareness Forum and for SOS Children’s Villages USA shows two recurring themes: spiritual programming and family-centered services for vulnerable children. It also funds education-related work through organizations such as Kode with Klossy and Wesleyan University, and it extends support to health-related institutions through San Francisco General Hospital Fdn. Several grants are listed as general support, indicating flexible funding rather than tightly restricted project-only awards. The mix of U.S.-based grantees and a small number of India-based organizations suggests a national grantmaking footprint with select international interest.
What Ankitara Foundation Funds
Spiritual and faith-based work appears to anchor the foundation’s giving. In 2025, Ankitara Foundation gave $50,000 to World Spiritual Awareness Forum for general support, and in 2024 it awarded $46,260 to the same organization for general support. Other grants in this lane include $10,000 to Krishnamurti Foundation of America for general support and $10,000 to All India Movement for Seva for general support. Education is another visible theme. The foundation gave $50,000 to Kode with Klossy for general support, supporting girls’ coding and STEM education, and $25,000 to Palo Alto Partners in Education for general support. Health and child welfare also show up in the portfolio: San Francisco General Hospital Fdn received $50,000 for general support, while SOS Children’s Villages USA received $35,000 and then $30,000 for general support.
How Ankitara Foundation Gives
Recent grants cluster around a median of $10,000, with the 25th percentile at $5,000 and the 75th percentile also at $10,000, so many awards sit at a single standard level. The foundation’s recent list shows both larger strategic grants and repeated smaller support grants, including multiple awards to the same organizations across years such as World Spiritual Awareness Forum, SOS Children’s Villages USA, Wesleyan University, World Without Cancer Fdn, and Samarthanam USA. Ankitara Foundation is classified as a regular funder and funds individuals as well as organizations. Program-related investments are not part of its activity, and the recent grants list shows several awards labeled general support, plus scholarship grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$280K
Total Assets
$6.1M
Total Revenue
$359K
Total Expenses
$414K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $10K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
National10 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Ankitara Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Ankitara Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 39 | $707K | 95.1% |
| 2 | India | 2 |
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