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Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IIT Madras Foundation | $50,000 |
| Foundation for Excellence | $10,000 |
| Hindu Community and Cultural Ctr | $2,894 |
| Shirdi Sai Parivaar | $1,001 |
| VSRCC | $501 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- THTHE HARKER SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $264k · revenue +26%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +60%
- HCHINDU COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER3× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- CCEEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SPSRI Paduka Charitiesone grant, 2023 · $20k
- LFLIFTNOW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $11k · 100% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Receives donation for funding & establishing scholarships,promoting reserch & development, ecxellence in education, teaching & other related tax exempt activities
To grant funds solely to the indian institute of technology delhi for charitable purposes to their endowment fund to support their instructional and research objectives.
To fund and promote education and research amongst students and faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. The organization achieves its goals by providing financial and other resources
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…
The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…
The foundation is a u.s. "friends of" entity formed by individuals who wish to advance and support the work of the indian institute of technology (banaras hindu university, "iit (bhu)"), a public technical and research university located…
The specific purposes for which the Foundation is organized are to fund and promote overall betterment of Indian Institute Of Technology,Kanpur and its students,faculty and alumni body.
Healthcare and education for the needy
The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.
Haf advances the understanding of hinduism to secure the rights and dignity of hindu americans now and for generations to come.
To provide secure, professionally managed financial support to the diverse programs of hindu temples and other hindu institutions that are dedicated to traditional and classical hindu principles and practices
Public education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iit Madras Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Iitmaana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTNOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IITMAANA ↗
- Who funds HINDU COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHIRDI SAI PARIVAAR ↗
- Who funds LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE LLC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Texas Instruments Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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