Sehgal Family Foundation (SFF) is a grant-making organization, which supports Biodiversity Conservation, Rural Development, and Crop Improvement. It funds the Sehgal Foundation, India as well as numerous other organizations whose activities directly or indirectly further the development in India. Sehgal Family Foundation is established by Dr. Suri Sehgal and his wife Edda Sehgal and is based in Des Moines, Iowa USA.
Since 1999, the Sehgal Family Foundation has made grants of approximately US$18m.
The following are some of the organizations which have been or continue to be recipients of grants from the Sehgal Family Foundation:
Grants
- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), New Delhi, India
- Dharma Vana Arboretum (DVA), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- ICREATE, New York, USA, and Jaipur, India
- International Crops Research Institute For The Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, AP, India
- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
- Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG), USA
- United Nations Foundation – Biodiversity Heritage Project, India
- United Nations Foundation – Delay Age at Marriage Project, Rajasthan, India
Minor grants
- Acumen Fund, New York, USA
- Aravali Vikas Sangathan (ARAVIS), Haryana, India
- Association for India’s Development, MD, USA
- Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Board of Regents, University of Southern California, USA
- Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Sanibel, USA
- “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society, Sanibel, USA
- Ekal Vidyalaya, India
- Gandhi College, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Greater Des Moines Community, Des Moines, USA
- International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
- XII International Conference on Rainwater Catchment Systems, Mexico
- India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), Chicago, USA
- Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO), University of Ghent, Belgium
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines, USA
- Iowa State University, Seed Science Center, Ames, USA
- Khoshoo Memorial Endowment Fund, ATREE, India
- Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
- Moulten Extension Learning Centre. Des Moines, USA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation, Delhi, India
- NRI Homecoming, Chicago, USA
- NY Historical Society, USA
- Orient Land Trust, Colorado, USA
- Pratham Foundation, Mysore, India
- Plant Database Consortium, Bangalore, India
- Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, Bulandsher, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Science Center of Iowa, USA
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, USA
- Swan Special Care Center, Champaign, USA
- Swaraj Foundation, Illinois, USA
- Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India
- Transportation for a Livable City, San Francisco, USA
- For Tsunami relief: United Nations Foundation, India; Charities Aid Foundation, India; SOS Children’s Villages of India; The American India Foundation; South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS), Trivandrum; Times Foundation, Delhi
- The Play Company, New York, USA
- The Smile Train, New York, USA
- The George Foundation, Bangalore, India
- United Nations Pride of India Campaign
- Vidiyel Trust, Vilathikulam, Tamil Nadu, India
- WGCU Public TV, Florida, USA
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