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Aiyer Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202021.

Health$32kReligion$16kInternational$6kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$2kArts & Culture$1kEnvironment$1k
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k15 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPED$15,000
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION$10,000
ARSHA VIDYA GURUKULAM$5,000
AIM FOR SEVA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPED$2,001
CHINMAYA MISSION$2,000
PBS$2,000
SRINGERI VIDYA FOUNDATION$2,000
AKSHYA PATRA FOUNDATION$2,000
INDIA HOME$1,000
BEHOND EVERY TEMPLE$1,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART$600
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AIM FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
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VA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
2
Akanksha Education Fund Inc

To support educational opportunities for underserved children in india, and raising support for and awareness of such activities in the united states.

International
3
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Hindus for Human Rights

Support & protect human rights.

Education
5
Indiaspora

Transforming the success of the indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide.

Human Services
6
Karuna-Shechen Usa

Karuna-shechen initiates and oversees projects that provide health care, education, and social services for the under-served populations of india, nepal, and tibet.

Philanthropy
7
Shiv Nadar Foundation

Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…

Education
8
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to instill a deep appreciation and enjoyment of art, by making it visible and accessible to the global public in a world class Museum.

Arts & Culture
9
India Development and Relief Fund Inc

Provide social development and relief assistance to underprivileged people primarily in india but also in nepal, sri lanka and the usa

International
10
Indian American Muslim Council

To promote common values of pluralism tolerance and respect for human rights that form the basis of the worlds two largest secular democracies - the United States and India.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Art & Photography Foundation Inc

To promote cultural collaboration between the united states and india, through the visual arts of india and south asia. a special emphasis is given to the sharing of exhibitions, art education projects and conservation.

Arts & Culture
12
Auroville International Usa

Auroville International USA serves projects working to support understanding and peace between diverse communities and individuals, unending education, conscious spiritual evolution, and Earth stewardship, which are the founding ideals of…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sankara Eye Foundation Usa and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD — $17,001 · OtherHEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTDARSHA-VIDYA-PITAM — $5,000 · OtherARSHA-VIDYA-PITAMIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHINMAYA MISSION — $2,000 · OtherSRINGERI VIDYA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · OtherPBS — $2,000 · OtherAKSHYA PATRA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Other+3 more — $2,555 · Other+3 moreSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $10,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USAAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA…RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST — $1,200 · PhilanthropyINDIA HOME INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $555 · InternationalMuseum of Modern Art — $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$37,556Health$15,000Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$1,200Housing & Shelter$1,000International$555Arts & Culture$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD — $17,001 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIA HOME INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN ACADEMY — $555 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Aiyer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Aiyer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Aiyer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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