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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATAPULT DESIGN | $125,000 |
| PATH | $70,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $60,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| MEDCINS SANS FRONTIERS USA | $50,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| KINKAID SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| MAIN STREET MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE | $10,000 |
| THE BALLYNEAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- TSTHE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +226%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University7× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +45%
- HAHouston Area Women's Center6× · 2019–2025 · $198k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- AIAGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Texas 2036 identifies and advances data-driven policies that will improve lives and expand opportunities for all Texans.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
Hispanic access foundation connects latinos and others to partners and opportunities to improve lives and create an equitable society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PRECINCT2GETHER Inc and the most unlike its peers is Out for Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 73 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 THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAPULT DESIGN ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Main Street Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER COUNTY FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds Ballyneal Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds La Posada Providencia ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK ↗
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.
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
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 Bhatia 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.