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Ankarsh

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$4kEducation$3kHealth$3kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$2kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$500
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION$4,000
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
CANINE CANCER ALLIANCE$1,000
EMPATHY FX INTERNATIONAL$1,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$500
LADY FREE THINKER$500
Individual grant recipient$500
TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER$500
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$38
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOOST WEST OAKLAND: $500 → 10%LADY FREE THINKER: $500 → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1k → 13%CANINE CANCER ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $38 → 14%AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND: $2k → 8%TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 10%James Logan Band Booster: $2k → 10%JAMES LOGAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 10%JAMES LOGAN HIGH SCHOOL: $800 → 10%The Social Engineering Project: $200 → 10%AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%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.
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 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
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
2
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
3
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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4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
5
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
6
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health
7
American Heart Association Inc

The american heart association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

Health
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
10
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
11
American Council On Science and Health

To ensure that peer-reviewed, evidence-based science reaches the public, the media, and the decision-makers who determine public policy. our objective is to restore science and common sense to personal and public health decisions, in order…

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12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Social Engineering Project. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES LOGAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2,750 · OtherJAMES LOGAN HIGH SCHOOLJames Logan Band Booster: $2,360 · OtherJames Logan Band BoosterAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $1,500 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INCCANINE CANCER ALLIANCE: $1,000 · OtherCANINE CANCER ALLIANCETRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 · OtherTRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTERIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $4,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (US…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $38 · HealthEMPATHY FX INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · InternationalCharity Navigator: $500 · Human ServicesLADY FREETHINKER: $500 · Civil RightsThe Social Engineering Project: $200 · Education
Other$8,610Food & Nutrition$4,000Health$1,038International$1,000Human Services$500Civil Rights$500Education$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPATHY FX INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLADY FREETHINKER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $38 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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