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Ankitara Foundation at a glance

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Ankitara Foundation

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.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$285kEducation$164kReligion$106kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIVINE WILL FOUNDATION$125,000
World Spiritual Awareness Forum$50,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$30,000
SOS Children's Villages USA$30,000
GLOBAL GIVING FOUNDATION$25,000
ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA$10,000
KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
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 (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Samarthanam USA: $10k → 11%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $10k → 12%Give Foundation: $25k → 8%Samarthanam USA: $10k → 11%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

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
DC
TX
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$268k · 7 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
20

Total granted

$268k
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WS
    World Spiritual Awarness Forum Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +65%
  • SC
    SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue -1%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -59%
  • KW
    KODE WITH KLOSSY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -14%
  • PA
    PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%
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
Sai Spiritual Foundation

Help establish unity of faith and welcome all spiritual seekers of all religions; realize the Inherent Divinity within as per Sathya SaiBaba

Religion
2
Friends of Teach for India Inc

Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.

Education
3
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
4
Sankara Eye Foundation Usa

To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…

Health
5
Shiv Nadar Foundation

Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…

Education
6
Karuna Foundation

Making distributions to individuals and organizations that advocate for and/or support the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens, particularly by addressing humanitarian crises or deficiencies in nutrition…

Animals
7
Vedic Sadhana Foundation

Promoting well being of individuals through the education and assistance of mindful living, meditation, and education of vedic and indian practices.

Education
8
Shivyog Usa

Uplifting the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels and welfare of individuals through the yogic practices of sacred ancient himalayan modalities of shiv yog to awaken the inner infinite potential.

Religion
9
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Ananta Giving Foundation

To provide support for charitable and educational organizations and initiatives in the united states and abroad, including but not limited to organizations and initiatives focused on providing and facilitating access to high quality…

Philanthropy
11
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

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12
Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in such activity as may be necessary, appropriate or otherwise helpful to support, provide assistance to or perform functions of aravind eye hospital and postgraduate institute of ophthamology…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. 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

24 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. 24 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIVINE WILL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · InternationalDIVINE WILL FOUNDATIONWorld Spiritual Awarness Forum Inc: $96,260 · InternationalWorld Spiritual Awarness Forum IncGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCMYRIAD USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC+5 more: $36,000 · International+5 moreWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYKODE WITH KLOSSY INC: $50,000 · EducationKODE WITH KLOSSY INCPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25,000 · EducationPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN ED…OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYKRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 · EducationKRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION …SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $65,000 · OtherSOS CHILDREN'S VILL…Individual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…Agaram Foundation: $10,000 · OtherAgaram FoundationGIVE2ASIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherGIVE2ASIA FOUNDATIO…Madurai Charitable Trust: $5,000 · OtherMAHESH MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCOMPASSION UNLIMITED PLUS ACTION: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSAN FRANCIS…WORLD WITHOUT CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthWORLD WITHO…Children of Peru Foundation: $5,000 · HealthChildren of…GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUN…SAMARTHANAM USA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAMARTHAN…ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA…FRIENDS OF RAMANA'S GARDEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…PRATHAM USA: $2,575 · Philanthropy
International$302,260Education$155,000Other$127,000Health$75,000Human Services$60,000Philanthropy$2,575

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 budgetDIVINE WILL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Spiritual Awarness Forum Inc: $96,260 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKODE WITH KLOSSY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSAMARTHANAM USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WITHOUT CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEVALAYA USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetINDIA LITERACY PROJECT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEARTHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RAMANA'S GARDEN: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChildren of Peru Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OF LIVING FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

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.

Bright Funds Foundati…Texas Instruments Fou…United Way WorldwideThe Intuit FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Baker Hughes Foundati…Salesforce FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…
Bright Funds FoundationCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Intuit Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baker Hughes Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Ankitara Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ankitara Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 32 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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