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Bhandara 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOROASTRIAN ASSOC OF HOUSTON | $36,699 |
| Nufdi Fund | $17,008 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,797 |
| Islamic Society of Greater Houston | $2,500 |
| Touch Base Center for DeafBlind | $2,500 |
| Star of Hope | $1,008 |
| Etoile Academy Charter School | $1,000 |
| Culture of Health-Advancing Togethe | $500 |
| Westbury High School Foundation | $500 |
| Alief Youth Sports League | $500 |
| Hearthstone Heatwaves | $250 |
| Friends of Namal | $101 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ZAZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON4× · 2021–2024 · $64k · revenue +214%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2024 · $34k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $15k
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR DISASTER RELIEF INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -93%
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +78%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Help Animals India is a 501c3 organization dedicated to improving the lives and welfare of animals by providing financial and consultation to support and build capacity of animal rescue groups in India and Nepal while connecting donors…
There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…
Protection of animal rights
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
To fight the epidemic of malnutrition in india. we manufacture and distribute affordable, tasty, and power-packed meals that are proven to treat malnutrition
Farmed animal rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is From Fauna Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
- Who funds ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DISASTER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH BASE CENTER FOR THE DEAFBLIND ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds FROM FAUNA INC ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NAMAL INC ↗
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.
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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 Bhandara 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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