· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE HEART2HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENTRYWAY ↗
- Who funds MAGIC BUS USA ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alka & Ajay Gupta aka Indus Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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