· Private foundation
Banyan Tree 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $449,834 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $617,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Afar Pastoralist Development Association | $75,000 |
| International Institute of Rural Reconstruction - Ethiopia | $60,000 |
| Carolina for Kibera, Inc | $50,000 |
| National Youth Awareness Forum | $46,050 |
| Forum for African Women Educationalists - SL | $42,609 |
| Grassroots nest for Innovations and Change | $42,585 |
| Dupoto-e-Maa Olkejuado Pastoralists Development Organization | $41,340 |
| College Track | $40,000 |
| Forum for African Women Educationalists - SL | $27,250 |
| Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) | $25,000 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
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
- SASEE ATTCHED STATEMENT6× · 2017–2022 · $6.6M
- FFForum for African Women Educationalists - SL2× · 2023–2024 · $165k
- APAfar Pastoralist Development Association2× · 2023–2024 · $158k
Funded once
- DODupoto-e-Maa Olkejuado Pastoralists Development Organizationone grant, 2024 · $41k
- JTJunior Tennis Champions Centerone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
1 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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