· Private foundation
Asvins 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC | $4,000 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC | $3,000 |
| RAAGA INC | $2,500 |
| LASA FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY MASSACHUSETTS INC | $1,000 |
| SAIL BEYOND CANCER NORTH SHORE MA INC | $1,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Asvins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +17%- EHEMERSON HOSPITAL7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +51%
- AIALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ALA LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue -64%
- SBSAIL BEYOND CANCER NORTH SHORE MA INCone grant, 2025 · $1k
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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).
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…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Delivering health with care while maintaining a comprehensive, integrated, academic health system. brown university health provided support services to its affiliates to assure the delivery of high-quality health services, medical…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Raaga Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds LASA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Asvins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asvins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital: 3% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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