· Private foundation
Bala 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sri Meenakshi Temple Society | $713 |
| Samskrita Bharati | $200 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $100 |
| American Heart Association | $80 |
| Houston Food Bank | $75 |
| Star of Hope Mission | $51 |
| American Red Cross | $50 |
| American Cancer Society | $50 |
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +277%- SESELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP2× · 2018–2019 · $700 · revenue +64%
- SNSankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $550 · revenue +31%
Funded once
- ASASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +162%
- SOSN OM TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $250
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $250
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 very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…
Foster teachings of hindu religion
Formed in 1993, the Classical Arts Society of Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the rich heritage of the classical performing arts of India. In particular, the organization presents South Indian…
To support all charitable and religious causes for the welfare of the poor and needy with no discrimination
Education
Foster & protect the religious diversity and pluralism, protecting, preserving, rejuvenating and disseminating information about non aggressive religious traditions
This is religion organization. Budda temple.
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 23 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 UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SAMSKRITA BHARTI ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ORGANIZATION FOR DIVINITY ↗
- Who funds Gauri Siddhivinayak Temple of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bala Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bala Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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