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Bhatia 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.

$578k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 37
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Bhatia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$578k23%
FY202426$420k19%
FY202332$381k25%
FY202233$449k18%
FY202137$401k38%
FY202023$248k30%
FY201923$218k96%
FY20185$533k80%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MEducation$909kInternational$382kCommunity Improvement$235kHuman Services$226kReligion$135kHousing & Shelter$110kFood & Nutrition$95kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Bhatia Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The St Anthony Hospital Foundation Inc$1,000,000214%
Catapult Design$235,000720%
William Marsh Rice University$212,00070%
Houston Area Women's Center$197,50060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$180,00070%
Main Street Ministries Inc$120,000710%
American Heart Association Inc$115,00050%
Path$110,00040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$90,00080%
Star of Hope Mission$70,00070%
The Houston Food Bank$70,00070%
United Way of Greater Houston$65,00050%
Sunflower County Freedom Project$65,00067%
Pratham USA$60,00040%
Ballyneal Foundation$52,50065%
The Kinkaid School Inc$50,00020%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$47,50060%
Association for Indias Development Inc$45,00021%
Khan Academy Inc$40,00040%
La Posada Providencia$30,00031%
Houston Zoo Inc$22,50030%
International Rescue Committee INC$20,00020%
Texas Tribune Inc$20,00020%
As Our Own Nfp$17,00030%
Health in Partnership$15,00030%
Kqed Inc$15,00030%
St Anthony Foundation$15,0002n/a
Kids' Meals Inc$15,00030%
Covenant House Texas$15,00030%
Dec My Room Inc$12,50021%
Sustainable Harvest International$10,00011%
Freedom Project Network$10,0001n/a
Hermann Park Conservancy$10,00030%
The Orange Show Foundation$5,00010%
Roots Community Health Center$5,00010%
Precinct2gether Inc$5,0001n/a
Girls Inc$5,00010%
Maitri$5,0001n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5,00010%
Storycorps Inc$5,00010%
Houston Bar Foundation$4,50030%
British American Foundation of Texas$2,50010%
Public Library of Science$1,43120%
National Women's Law Center$1,25010%
Out for Education$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($629k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bhatia Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe St Anthony Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCatapult Design: $235,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $212,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $197,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $180,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMain Street Ministries Inc: $120,000 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPath: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower County Freedom Project: $65,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetPratham USA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBallyneal Foundation: $52,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation for Indias Development Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLa Posada Providencia: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAs Our Own Nfp: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHealth in Partnership: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKqed Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKids' Meals Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDec My Room Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoots Community Health Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Bar Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBritish American Foundation of Texas: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Library of Science: $1,431 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOut for Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Bhatia Foundation

How much does Bhatia Foundation give?
Bhatia Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $577,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bhatia Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (24%), International (10%).
Who are Bhatia Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The St Anthony Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Catapult Design ($235k), William Marsh Rice University ($212k).
Does Bhatia Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bhatia Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bhatia Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is Bhatia Foundation based?
Bhatia Foundation is based in TX.

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 73 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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