California · Private foundation
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.
- $64k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,894
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $922k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $64k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $26k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $79k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $76k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $89k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $75k | 79% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harker School | $263,501 | 5 | 0% |
| Iit Madras Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation for Excellence Inc | $16,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Liftnow Foundation | $11,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Iitmaana | $10,001 | 1 | 1% |
| Hindu Community and Cultural Center | $6,601 | 3 | 0% |
| Shirdi Sai Parivaar | $4,506 | 5 | 0% |
| Hindu Temple Society of Na | $3,032 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harker School | $263,501 | 5 | 0% |
| Iit Madras Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation for Excellence Inc | $16,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Liftnow Foundation | $11,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Iitmaana | $10,001 | 1 | 1% |
| Hindu Community and Cultural Center | $6,601 | 3 | 0% |
| Shirdi Sai Parivaar | $4,506 | 5 | 0% |
| Hindu Temple Society of Na | $3,032 | 2 | n/a |
| Los Altos Educational Foundation | $2,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Hindu Temple of South Bay | $1,001 | 1 | n/a |
| Home of Hope LLC | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fine Arts Museums Foundation | $650 | 1 | 0% |
| Sri Shiva Temple Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation
- How much does Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation give?
- Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $64,396 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Science & Tech (10%), Health (5%).
- Who are Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Harker School ($264k), Iit Madras Foundation ($50k), Center for Excellence in Education ($25k).
- Does Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bright Funds Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation based?
- Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation is based in CA.
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