· Private foundation
Bvm 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Bvm Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Bvm Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $57k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $6,000 |
| SEWA INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| INDIAN CIRCLE OF CARING | $5,000 |
| INFINITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JAIN CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON | $2,500 |
| HIMALAYAN ACADEMY | $1,008 |
| CHINMAYA MISSION BOSTON | $1,000 |
| JAIN SANGH OF NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| THE DESAI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SAMSKRITA BHARATI | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
To promote the understanding of india's cultural traditions, universal understanding and harmony; to publish the encyclopedia of hinduism; to organize lectures and seminars on various aspects of indian traditions; charitable activities…
To provide secure, professionally managed financial support to the diverse programs of hindu temples and other hindu institutions that are dedicated to traditional and classical hindu principles and practices
Arihanta academys mission is to build a world-class online institution for deeper learning of the jain tradition, its principles, and how these principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals and society in…
Foster teachings of hindu religion
The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…
We seek to bring timeless wisdom insights into dialogue with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of consciousness and the nature of reality.
Our mission as per the by-laws : a) the board adopts a strategic plan that includes goals which will lead to acquiring accreditation recognized by us department of education and maintaining it. this includes getting an accreditation from…
Maintened a website to document and present our research, popular vedic popularvedicscience.com. added 200 new articles and the website is now a top ranking site
Public education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hindu American Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samskrita Bharti. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds JAIN CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds INFINITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAMSKRITA BHARTI ↗
- Who funds JAIN SANGH OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DESAI FOUNDATION ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bvm 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
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.