About Shraman Foundation
Shraman Foundation’s giving is highly focused on supporting Indian technical education, especially scholarship aid for IITs, NITs, and other engineering-oriented institutions across India. It also shows a secondary local footprint in Dallas-area education, with occasional support for public school and community college initiatives, plus a smaller set of in-kind grants tied to access-to-medicine efforts. The foundation appears to use a donor-advised or regranting approach, with most dollars concentrated in a few large vehicles and repeated support to a fairly consistent set of grantees.
Focus Areas
Scholarships for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)Scholarship support for National Institutes of Technology (NITs)Engineering and technical education in IndiaDallas public school and community college supportAccess to medicine and in-kind health-related donationsDisability assistance in India
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving with most dollars routed through a single charitable vehicle, plus a smaller cluster of repeat grants to Indian engineering schools and a few local Dallas education and health-related recipients. The pattern suggests a mix of large pooled giving and targeted recurring support to the same institutions rather than broad, distributed philanthropy.
About Shraman Foundation
Shraman Foundation’s recent giving is defined by a single very large grant: $4,826,735 in 2025 to a Dallas recipient listed in the filing as an attachment reference. That scale, combined with only three recent grants on record, points to a highly concentrated grantmaking pattern rather than a broad portfolio of many awards. The foundation’s public grant programs also show a strong education-and-scholarship orientation, especially for students in engineering, science, mathematics, and medical education. In India, Shraman Foundation supports equal opportunity scholarships for undergraduates in engineering and science, MBBS students in government medical colleges, and incentives for students pursuing mathematics. It also runs a U.S.-based incentive program for financially disadvantaged students in technical degree programs at public community colleges in the Dallas Metroplex and Texas. Another named initiative, the Center for Global Access to Medicine, is aimed at improving access to medical innovation in developing countries. The picture that emerges is of a funder that combines very large institutional support with targeted student aid and access-to-medicine efforts.
What Shraman Foundation Funds
Shraman Foundation’s grant programs cluster around higher education and student support. In engineering and science, it offers scholarships for talented, financially needy undergraduates at IITs, NITs, IISERs, and state universities in India, including tuition and institutional fees such as hostel and mess costs. It also has a separate engineering and science scholarship initiative for India with annual renewal. Medical education is another clear priority: the foundation supports MBBS students in government medical colleges across India with assistance for tuition, hostel, mess, and related educational costs. Beyond degree funding, it also offers a mathematics scholarship that provides incentives for school and undergraduate students who excel in mathematics. In the U.S., a separate program supports students in specified technical degree programs at public community colleges in the Dallas Metroplex and Texas.
How Shraman Foundation Gives
The recent grant sizes are tightly spread at the lower end of a very large overall range: p25 is $316,390, median grant size is $490,923, and p75 reaches $2,658,829. The available recent-grants file shows only three awards across 2023 to 2025, which indicates a pattern of infrequent but high-value grants rather than recurring small checks. The foundation is not reported as funding individuals directly, and it does not make program-related investments. Its active programs, however, include direct scholarship and incentive structures, with several accepting unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10.5M
Total Assets
$571.4M
Total Revenue
$3M
Total Expenses
$10.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $6K and $21K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$6K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$21K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Shraman Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Shraman Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 56 | $893K | 88.9% |
| 2 | United StatesDomestic | 7 |
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