· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arvind and Sowmya Thvar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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