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Bajaj Family Foundation at a glance

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Bajaj Family 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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$63kEducation$60kInternational$46kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chugh Foundation$22,000
The Dakshana Foundation$14,021
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%South Asian Helpline and Referral A: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 28% of Bajaj Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 49%.

Bajaj Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 5 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$71k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+40%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DF
    DAKSHANA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue -64%
  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +300%
  • SE
    SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
    2× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +181%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
International Eye Foundation

International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.

International
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
6
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
7
Urology Care Foundation Inc

We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.

Health
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health
11
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
12
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The 1947 Partition Archive. 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAKSHANA FOUNDATION: $29,163 · EducationDAKSHANA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FO…HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,043 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED D…SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $8,121 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USAALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $4,142 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTYST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOS…+1 more: $1,187 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…American Cancer Society: $6,021 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyDreams for School: $5,021 · OtherDreams for SchoolSt Jude Children's Research Hospita: $5,021 · OtherSt Jude Children's Rese…+4 more: $1,932 · OtherCHUGH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · ReligionCHUGH FOUNDAT…PRATHAM USA: $5,021 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $521 · PhilanthropyTHE 1947 PARTITION ARCHIVE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSouth Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $3,121 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC: $1,121 · Food & Nutrition
Education$54,163Health$50,493Other$37,995Religion$22,000Philanthropy$5,542Arts & Culture$5,000Human Services$3,121Food & Nutrition$1,121

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAKSHANA FOUNDATION: $29,163 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,043 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $8,121 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $5,021 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1947 PARTITION ARCHIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $4,142 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $3,121 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,187 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC: $1,121 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Scan Health PlanOrange County Communi…California Community …The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Scan Health PlanCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scan Health Plan · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bajaj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bajaj Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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