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Anantha Narayana Foundation Inc at a glance

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Anantha Narayana Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$167k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$121kPublic Benefit$49kHealth$45kCommunity Improvement$40kScience & Tech$13kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$2kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $30
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION$35,000
SANKARA NETHRALAYA OM TRUST$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$11,567
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$30
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $185 → 12%CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH: $20 → 20%LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUN: $40 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $51 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $25 → 12%SOARING EAGLE: $101 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $25 → 12%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $30 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $18 → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $80 → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25 → 9%AMERICAN FDN FOR THE BLIND: $105 → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $391 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $343 → 14%CONVENANT HOUSE: $70 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $161 → 14%CONVENANT HOUSE: $50 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $40 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
SC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$271k · 68 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
66

Total granted

$271k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SN
    Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +50%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +78%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • H
    HTES
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • SH
    SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
11
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bhartiya Temple & Cultural Center Inc. 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

80 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. 80 of the 136 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
51/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $110,057 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCMWAR: $61,486 · OtherCMWARAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION: $37,001 · OtherAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION+76 more: $22,941 · Other+76 moreSankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc: $27,557 · EducationSankara Net…+5 more: $749 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,869 · Health+19 more: $2,718 · HealthFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $572 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $285 · InternationalAID FOR STARVING CHILDREN: $279 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $175 · InternationalPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $110 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $99 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $93 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $75 · InternationalBREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC: $70 · International+5 more: $145 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,045 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $235 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $160 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $105 · Human ServicesSOARING EAGLE: $101 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $89 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $80 · Human Services+5 more: $158 · Human ServicesCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $662 · Arts & CultureVIVEKANANDA VIDYAPITH INC: $500 · Arts & CultureBHARTIYA TEMPLE & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $602 · Religion+1 more: $15 · Religion
Other$231,485Education$28,306Health$14,587International$1,978Human Services$1,973Arts & Culture$1,162Religion$617

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc: $27,557 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,869 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,045 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $662 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBHARTIYA TEMPLE & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $602 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $572 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIVEKANANDA VIDYAPITH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $471 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $455 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $402 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $326 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $305 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAID FOR STARVING CHILDREN: $279 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $244 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $237 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $235 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $227 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $181 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE TROOPS: $160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $110 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOARING EAGLE: $101 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG ACCESS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $99 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $96 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $93 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc: $90 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $90 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $89 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $74 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $63 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BHARTIYA TEMPLE & CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds VIVEKANANDA VIDYAPITH INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds AID FOR STARVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗

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.

Seckinger Foundation …Farrell Family Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Vandevere Charitable …B & R Charitable Foun…Bradford Family Found…Ebs FoundationThe Setton FoundationAmerica's CharitiesAbbVie FoundationVerizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…
Seckinger Foundation CorporationFL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Farrell Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradford Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The Setton Foundation · America's Charities · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anantha Narayana Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anantha Narayana Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 136 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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