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Arora Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Arora Family Foundation Inc

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.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$51kCommunity Improvement$30kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$27kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$10,000
FUTURE LAND$8,000
THE LITTLEST HEROES$7,799
ASSEMBLY OF THE ARTS$5,000
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC$5,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT$5,000
FOOD STRONG$4,000
EIGHTY-SEVEN & RUNNING$3,500
CAVS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN$3,500
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION$3,500
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $3k → 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.
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
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
Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education
Human Services
2
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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3
Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture
4
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
5
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
6
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
7
The City Club of Cleveland

The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education
8
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
9
Akron Soul Train

Akron soul train (ast) is a multidisciplinary residency program that provides 12-15 artists each year with paid residencies. our mission is to offer ohio-based visual, performing, and literary artists the space, time, and financial…

Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp

To strengthen the core assets of downtown cincinnati, create great civic spaces, high-density/mixed-use developments, and preserve historic structures.

Community Improvement
11
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
12
Cleveland Public Library Foundation

Cleveland public library foundation's mission is to raise philanthropic and advocacy support for the cleveland public library.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assembly for the Arts; the most unlike its peers is The Littlest Heroes 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

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 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
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

Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF: $17,806 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OFCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL: $16,500 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOLCAMPUS DISTRICT INC: $15,000 · OtherCAMPUS DISTRICT INCUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSFUTURELAND: $8,000 · OtherFUTURELANDPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $5,000 · OtherPURDUE UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · OtherASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $24,300 · Other+9 moreTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $23,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAN…THE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $17,799 · HealthTHE LITTL…FOOD STRONG: $6,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $5,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$136,606Philanthropy$23,500Health$17,799Food & Nutrition$11,000Public Benefit$10,000Animals$5,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLEST HEROES INC: $17,799 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCAMPUS DISTRICT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD STRONG: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEIGHTY-SEVEN & RUNNING: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Hudson Community Foun…Burton D Morgan Found…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland FoundationOH17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Hudson Community Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Arora Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Arora Family Foundation Inc 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 26 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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