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Alicia & Madu Rao Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Health$256kEducation$19kReligion$7kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$3kCommunity Improvement$2kInternational$788Food & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCE$86,061
SUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCE$18,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$15,000
ST GEORGE THEATRE$4,000
ST GEORGE THEATRE$3,021
NEW DROP HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FLATBUSH YMCA: $100 → 17%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

NY
NJ
CA
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$276k · 8 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$276k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+34%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SD
    SUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $123k
  • SD
    SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $81k
  • HA
    HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD
    4× · 2017–2020 · $53k · revenue -42%

Funded once

  • RR
    RENEW REBUILD CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • SS
    ST SYLVESTER CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • MS
    MISSION SOCIETY OF PHILIPPINES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

At donor advised charitable giving, inc., our mission is to increase charitable giving in the united states by offering advantageous ways to give useful information and unbiased guidance.

Philanthropy
4
The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) strives to champion democratic values and the transatlantic alliance by strengthening civil society, forging bold and innovative policy ideas, and developing a new generation of leaders…

International
5
UniversalGiving

Our mission is to connect people to quality giving and volunteer opportunities worldwide. universalgiving is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, whose vision is to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday…

Philanthropy
6
Fund for the Global Fund

To encourage individuals, corporations, foundations and donor governments to support the global fund, an international foundation focused on ending three of the world's most deadly infectious diseases.

Human Services
7
Breastcancerorg

Our mission is to help people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

Health
8
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
11
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education
12
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg and the most unlike its peers is Barbells for Boobs. 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

9 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. 9 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCE — $123,061 · OtherSUNY DOWNSTATE HEALTH SCIENCESUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER — $80,830 · OtherSUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTERHEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD — $52,500 · OtherHEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD+13 more — $28,731 · Other+13 moreEmory University — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $556 · EducationETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $3,800 · ReligionGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $288 · InternationalGOFUNDMEORG — $150 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $100 · Human Services
Other$285,122Education$15,556Religion$3,800International$288Philanthropy$150Human Services$100

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 — $52,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetEmory University — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBELLS FOR BOOBS — $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $100 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.

  • Who funds HEART AND HAND FOR THE HANDICAPPED LTD
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BARBELLS FOR BOOBS
  • Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alicia & Madu Rao Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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