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.

Bhatia Foundation

Bhatia Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $38k
$10k–50k11 grants · $175k
$50k–250k5 grants · $365k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CATAPULT DESIGN	$125,000
PATH	$70,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL	$60,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER	$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
STAR OF HOPE	$10,000
TEXAS TRIBUNE	$10,000
THE BALLYNEAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,000
FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK	$10,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 45 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+42%

Still filing today

71%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

TS
THE ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +226%
WM
William Marsh Rice University
7× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +45%
HA
Houston Area Women's Center
6× · 2019–2025 · $198k · revenue +102%

Funded once

SH
Sustainable Harvest International
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
AI
AGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science

Texas 2036

Texas 2036 identifies and advances data-driven policies that will improve lives and expand opportunities for all Texans.

Public Benefit

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

—

Community Information Now

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.

Community Improvement

Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit

Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education

Hispanic Access Foundation

Hispanic access foundation connects latinos and others to partners and opportunities to improve lives and create an equitable society.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PRECINCT2GETHER Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

33/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$1,135,000Other$1,061,131Education$375,500International$372,000Human Services$357,500Community Improvement$235,000Housing & Shelter$190,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bhatia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bhatia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home