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AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC

EIN 13-3976569 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$1,006,304
Expenses 2024
$1,387,214

Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q123
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2038

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN IN INDIA, AND RAISING SUPPORT FOR AND AWARENESS OF SUCH ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN IN INDIA, AND RAISING SUPPORT FOR AND AWARENESS OF SUCH ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. THROUGH ITS ACTIVITIES, AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC. ENABLES SOME OF THE MOST MARGINALIZED CHILDREN IN THE WORLD TO MAXIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AND TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES.

  • AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH A MISSION TO PROVIDE CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES WITH A HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION, ENABLING THEM TO MAXIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AND TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES. FOR OVER 30 YEARS, AKANKSHA HAS EDUCATED CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES ACROSS MUMBAI AND PUNE FIRST, THROUGH THEIR AFTER-SCHOOL CENTERS, AND SINCE 2007, THROUGH THE SCHOOL PROJECT. CURRENTLY, 'THE SCHOOL PROJECT' OPERATES 27 SCHOOLS, SERVING APPROXIMATELY 14,700 CHILDREN AND 5,400 ALUMNI. LOOKING AHEAD, THEY SEEK TO EXPAND THEIR NETWORK OF SCHOOLS, SHARE THEIR EFFECTIVE PRACTICES AND ADVOCATE FOR QUALITY SCHOOL REFORM FOR CHILDREN ACROSS INDIA. AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND SUPPORTS ALUMNI FROM THE AKANKSHA FOUNDATION FUNDED SCHOOLS PURSUING HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. SERVICES INCLUDE MENTORING, CAREER GUIDANCE AND ACCESS TO REMOTE HOST FAMILIES.

    Expenses $1,024,913 · Grants $827,350

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Shankar Iyer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bharti Malkani

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kate Shoemaker

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Falguni Malkani

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Nymrata Advani

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reena Batra

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pulkeshi Jape

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sachin Jindal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ruyintan Mehta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anjali Melwani

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amir Mirza

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Medha Prakash

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Srividya Prakash

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah H Roberts

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monica Sheth

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ramesh Srinivasan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sejal Desai

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $184,354
    From this org
    $173,919
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,435
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,919
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,435
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $184,354

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,006,304
    Expenses
    $1,387,214
    Contributions
    $936,701
    Grants paid
    $827,350
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,186,595
    Expenses
    $2,473,631
    Contributions
    $2,224,113
    Grants paid
    $1,973,159
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,580,109
    Expenses
    $1,897,972
    Contributions
    $2,565,148
    Grants paid
    $1,480,171

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,850,540
    Expenses
    $2,122,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,904,487

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,641,863
    Expenses
    $1,995,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,241,491

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,687,215
    Expenses
    $1,906,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,560,626

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,453,933
    Expenses
    $1,474,756
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,875,076

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,828,075
    Expenses
    $2,246,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,877,315

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,535,926
    Expenses
    $406,487
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,295,197

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.