· Private foundation
Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Houston Community Foundation | $27,434 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| Sunrise Learning Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Heart 2 Heart Foundation | $10,000 |
| Entryway | $5,000 |
| Chicago Public Library | $3,000 |
| Hindu Worship Society | $1,702 |
| Radha Krishna Temple | $1,100 |
| Sanatan Shiv Shakti Mandir | $1,002 |
| Self Enquiry Life Fellowship | $1,001 |
| Agarwal Association of America | $1,000 |
| National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc | $1,000 |
| Braj Bhumi Group | $251 |
| Texas Gaushala | $251 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MBMAGIC BUS USA2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +19%
- SISewa International Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +101%
- AAAGARWAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA4× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SGSAI GLOBAL MISSIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SFSMILE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The goal was to unite the entire hindu population of greater houston at one place to develop a strong unity and brotherhood among the hindu community. the idea was discussed with a number of active hindu individuals and associations and…
Providing a platform for the Indian Diaspora from the Maharashtra state of India for social engagement as well as promotion and dissemenation of its language and culture.
Increasing trade and services between usa & india. also to enhance trade within the greater houston area.
Educational and religious activities Advance teaching of Hindu Vedic Scripures
to promote and practice the ideals of Hindu religion through worship, education, and cultural activities, while striving for spiritual richness and human excellence
Hindu temple - prayers
Help the needy and low income individual, family and students via scholarship and grants to other non profit organizations
Religious Organization
To encourage cooperation between the usa and india and advance the shared values of democracy, inclusive economic development and mutual respect.
Our mission is to introduce universal values of truth, nonviolence, love and service to every child in and around houston metropolitan area through study of leaders of peace such as mahatma gandhi, dr. martin luther king, jr. and others.
To provide education and knowledge about hindu religious and cultural activities and to heighten awareness of religious, ethnic, cultural and social values of people of indian origin.
Healthcare and education for the needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is VedicTree Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 207 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAI GLOBAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE HEART2HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGIC BUS USA ↗
- Who funds ENTRYWAY ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds AGARWAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds Hanuman Mandir of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Rungta Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares 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.
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.