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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.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,702
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,434
Organizations funded a year
1 to 97
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$49k54%
FY20249$61k67%
FY20231$10k0%
FY20224$8k75%
FY202181$102k74%
FY202097$101k77%
FY201950$42k90%
FY20187$19k71%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$279kEducation$199kHuman Services$64kInternational$36kReligion$30kHealth$21kFood & Nutrition$12kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NJ
CA
WV
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
India House Inc$62,00074%
Sai Global Mission$20,00011%
Smile Foundation$10,0001n/a
The Houston Food Bank$10,00010%
The Heart2heart Foundation Inc$10,000120%
Chicago Public Library Foundation$6,75050%
Entryway$5,00010%
Magic Bus USA$5,00020%
Sewa International Inc$5,00020%
Agarwal Association of America$4,00143%
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All grantees of Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
India House Inc$62,00074%
Sai Global Mission$20,00011%
Smile Foundation$10,0001n/a
The Houston Food Bank$10,00010%
The Heart2heart Foundation Inc$10,000120%
Chicago Public Library Foundation$6,75050%
Entryway$5,00010%
Magic Bus USA$5,00020%
Sewa International Inc$5,00020%
Agarwal Association of America$4,00143%
First Book$2,86010%
Braj Bhumi Group Inc$2,7512n/a
Hanuman Mandir of Greater Houston$2,50012%
Self Enquiry Life Fellowship$2,00220%
Houston Police Foundation$2,00010%
VedicTree Foundation$2,00011%
Quillian Memorial Center Inc$2,00010%
Texas Gaushala$1,75120%
Hindu Worship Society$1,7021n/a
Radha Krishna Temple$1,1001n/a
Indian Doctors Association of Houston$1,00011%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$1,0001n/a
Hope and Helping Hands Inc$1,00011%
Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees$1,00010%
Westchase District Community Fund$50010%
Nueva Jerusalen Church$4001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 180 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndia House Inc: $62,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSai Global Mission: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heart2heart Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetChicago Public Library Foundation: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEntryway: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMagic Bus USA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSewa International Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAgarwal Association of America: $4,001 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFirst Book: $2,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHanuman Mandir of Greater Houston: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSelf Enquiry Life Fellowship: $2,002 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Police Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVedicTree Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetQuillian Memorial Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Gaushala: $1,751 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndian Doctors Association of Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHope and Helping Hands Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestchase District Community Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation

How much does Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation give?
Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $76,241 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 97 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Education (29%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: India House Inc ($62k), Sai Global Mission ($20k), Smile Foundation ($10k).
Does Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Rungta Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
Where is Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation based?
Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 207 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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