Between 2010 and 2017, the number of native Telugu speakers in the US surged 86%—the largest uptick in a foreign language-speaking group—the results of a September 2018 study by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) show. This was the highest jump among the most widely spoken foreign languages in the country, among those that had over 400,000 people speaking it.

Speakers of other popular Indian languages like Hindi and Gujarati also clocked high growth rates.

Indian Americans donated $1.2 billion to 37 US universities between 2000 and 2018, according to an Indiaspora research of publicly available information from 68 such donations of more than $1 million.

Released by the not-for-profit Indiaspora, which aims at transforming the success of Indian Americans into a meaningful impact worldwide, the first-of-its-kind report is part of its project —Monitor of University Giving. It is a "living database" to keep abreast of Indian American philanthropic donations to higher education, said Silicon Valley-based philanthropist and venture capitalist MR Rangaswami.