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Asvins Foundation

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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$65kEducation$60kArts & Culture$19kInternational$18kHuman Services$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kReligion$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$15,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC$5,000
VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC$3,000
ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC$3,000
EMERSON HOSPITAL$3,000
CHILDREN'S ROOM - CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN & T$2,000
LASA FOUNDATION INC$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LASA FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 8%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $5k → 12%LASA FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $4k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $4k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $3k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of Asvins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Asvins Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$181k
$0

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +42%
  • AI
    ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +53%

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    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.

    1
    Boston Architectural College

    The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

    2
    Emerson Health System Inc

    Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

    Health
    3
    Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

    The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

    4
    Northeast College of Health Sciences

    Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

    Education
    5
    Union Health System

    To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

    Health
    6
    Assumption University

    Assumption university is a comprehensive, catholic liberal arts institution sponsored by the augustinians of the assumption. we awaken in students a sense of wonder, discovery, and purpose, forming graduates known for their intellectual…

    Education
    7
    Wheaton College

    Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

    Education
    8
    Saint Anselm College

    Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

    Education
    9
    Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

    Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

    Education
    10
    Tufts University Employee Benefit Trust

    To provide health insurance benefits for retired employees

    11
    University of Virginia Investment Management Company

    The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

    Education
    12
    Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raaga Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

    05the grantee network

    9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    6/9
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    Trustees of Tufts College — $60,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $13,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCEMERSON HOSPITAL — $35,600 · HealthEMERSON HOSPITALTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC — $11,000 · HealthTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING…CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $15,000 · OtherCHARLES RIVER AS…CHILDREN'S ROOM - CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN & T — $12,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ROOM …ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOV…LASA FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesLASA FOUNDATI…ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRaaga Inc — $6,000 · Arts & Culture
    Education$73,000Health$46,600Other$27,000Human Services$22,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000Arts & Culture$6,000

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL — $35,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRaaga Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetLASA FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
    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.

    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.

    The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Asvins 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
    • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
    • Emerson Hospital3% of income from government
    • Berklee College of Music Inc1% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Asvins Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Asvins Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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