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Bhargava Foundation at a glance

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Bhargava 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.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$293kHuman Services$49kInternational$27kEducation$10kHealth$7kArts & Culture$6kPublic Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$1,001
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS$40,000
MAI FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
ACCENT PONTIAC$5,000
HINDU TEMPLE OF LAS VEGAS$1,502
Individual grant recipient$1,100
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY$1,001
HINDU TEMPLE OF CANTON$1,001
BRAHMAN SAMAJ OF NORTH AMERICA$1,000
PRATHAM USA$1,000
BHARATIYA TEMPLE$953
EISENHOWER HIGH SCHOOL DANCE TEAM$520
FAMILY YOUTH INTERVENTIONS$500
ISKCON OF LAS VEGAS$251
SHRI BHAKTA HANUMAN TEMPLE$251
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUND: $5k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%WEST MICHIGAN HUNDU TEMPLE: $1k → 11%CITY OF MARYSVILLE: $5k → 13%MOST HOLY TRINITY CHHURCH: $3k → 21%MANDIR OF MADISON: $1k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%INDIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE: $9k → 14%LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 16%HINDU TEMPLE OF LAS VEGAS: $2k → 13%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%MOST HOLY TRINITY CHHURCH: $2k → 21%MANDIR OF MADISON: $1k → 10%INDIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE: $9k → 14%HINDU TEMPLE OF LAS VEGAS: $1k → 13%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%INDIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE: $7k → 14%HINDU TEMPLE OF LAS VEGAS: $1k → 13%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%THE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $5k → 21%INDIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE: $3k → 14%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%THE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $3k → 21%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 8%THE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $3k → 21%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 8%THE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $2k → 21%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 8%HINDU TEMPLE OF CANTON: $1k → 21%MAI FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 8%THE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $1k → 21%GURDWARA BAB DEEP SINGH JI: $3k → 13%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $15k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $10k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $8k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $8k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $7k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $4k → 8%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $3k → 8%ACCENT PONTIAC: $5k → 8%ACCENT PONTIAC: $4k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $60k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $40k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $35k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $30k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $20k → 8%ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $20k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
TN
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$382k · 15 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$382k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+57%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MF
    MAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +38%
  • ID
    India Development Service
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +163%
  • AP
    ACCENT PONTIAC INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k
  • LS
    LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +47% · 30% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF MARYSVILLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
3
Twinepidemic Inc

Twinepidemic, inc was created to conduct educational programs, research, registries and disseminate information through lectures, symposia, conferences, health fairs and work as forum for reduction of diabetes and heart disease through…

Health
4
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
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
International Vaccine Institute

To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.

International
8
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
9
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
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is India Development Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISKCON FARMINGTON HILLS: $205,252 · OtherISKCON FARMINGTON HILLSBHARATIYA TEMPLE: $55,931 · OtherBHARATIYA TEMPLEIndia Development Service: $26,975 · OtherIndia Development ServiceTHE HINDU TEMPLE (CANTON): $14,613 · Other+22 more: $33,722 · Other+22 moreMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL: $49,002 · Arts & CultureMAI FAMILY SE…+1 more: $670 · Arts & CultureACCENT PONTIAC INC: $9,000 · EducationPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,501 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,001 · HealthMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthGURDWARA BABA DEEP SINGH INC: $3,357 · ReligionWest Michigan Hindu Temple: $1,002 · ReligionGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,001 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USA: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$336,493Arts & Culture$49,672Education$9,000Health$6,002Religion$4,359Philanthropy$2,001

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL: $49,002 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetIndia Development Service: $26,975 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetACCENT PONTIAC INC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetGURDWARA BABA DEEP SINGH INC: $3,357 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,501 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWest Michigan Hindu Temple: $1,002 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEISENHOWER HS DANCE TEAM CLUB: $670 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds MAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL ↗
  • Who funds India Development Service ↗
  • Who funds ACCENT PONTIAC INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds GURDWARA BABA DEEP SINGH INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds West Michigan Hindu Temple ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EISENHOWER HS DANCE TEAM CLUB ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE 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.

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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 Bhargava Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bhargava Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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