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Arj Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Arj Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$243k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$217kHealth$46kPhilanthropy$31kArts & Culture$27kEducation$20kInternational$15kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $229,973, the rows itemized in this filing. The $243,473 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $166k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VEDIC HERITAGE INC$166,301
RAVI AND NAINA PATEL FOUNDATION$31,000
JAIPUR FOOT INC$10,000
EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION$10,000
BAPS CHARITIES INC$5,000
CHINMAYA MISSION NEW YORK$5,000
ARUNACHALA ASHRAMA NEW YORK$1,001
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$1,000
SHRI PADMAVATI SHAKTE PEETH$251
LITTLE SHELTER$200
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC$120
NASSAU COUNTY POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE INC.$100
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 14 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$307k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+134%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • JF
    JAIPUR FOOT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +193%
  • BAPS CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • IF
    ISHA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • VI
    VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -43%
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +134%
  • PJ
    PANDIT JASRAJ INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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.

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
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Sanjay Shah Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Samjivani Foundation
Philanthropy
4
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
5
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Aparnas Health Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Kailash Goyal Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Jaya Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Swami Dayanand Education Foundation
Education
10
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
11
Charak Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Nakadar Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baps Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barkha Dance Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VEDIC HERITAGE INC: $208,539 · OtherVEDIC HERITAGE INCEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATIONPANDIT JASRAJ SCHOOL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,980 · Other+18 more: $26,907 · Other+18 moreRAVI AND NAINA PATEL FOUNDATION: $31,000 · PhilanthropyRAVI AND NAI…VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyVEERAYATAN I…JAIPUR FOOT INC: $30,000 · InternationalJAIPUR FO…BARKHA DANCE COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBAPS CHARITIES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICA INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $4,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthISHA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Education
Other$266,426Philanthropy$41,000International$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$10,000Health$7,500Education$7,000

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 budgetRAVI AND NAINA PATEL FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJAIPUR FOOT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBAPS CHARITIES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHRI PADMAVATI SHAKTI PEETH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC: $390 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Police Activity League Inc: $100 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.

  • Who funds RAVI AND NAINA PATEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JAIPUR FOOT INC ↗
  • Who funds VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BAPS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ISHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRI PADMAVATI SHAKTI PEETH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Nassau County Police Activity League 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Arj Charitable Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Arj Charitable Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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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