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Chandna 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.9MPhilanthropy$714kArts & Culture$166kInternational$131kYouth Development$88kHealth$42kHuman Services$12kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $222k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$100,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$72,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$50,000
PENINSULA BRIDGE$33,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$25,000
PARIKRMA USA$25,000
SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND$20,000
MENLO SCHOOL$20,000
SHINE TOGETHER$15,000
MAITRI$3,000
SF MOMA$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAKE IT HOME BAY AREA: $1k → 8%PARIKRMA USA: $25k → 19%REALIZE IMPACT: $5k → 10%MAKE IT HOME BAY AREA: $473 → 8%PARIKRMA USA: $25k → 19%PARIKRMA USA: $25k → 19%PARIKRMA USA: $25k → 19%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 14 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$5.5M
$920k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

79%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MS
    MENLO SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +90%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +16%
  • TP
    THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHANDNA FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST DAF
    one grant, 2021 · $454k
  • MI
    MLT IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
5
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
6
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
Samuel Merritt University

Samuel merritt university educates students to become highly skilled and compassionate health care professionals who positively transform the experience of care in diverse communities.

Education
12
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2; the most unlike its peers is Rotary District 6400 Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,760,000 · OtherCASE WESTERN UNIVERSITYCASE WESTERN RESERVE: $1,199,000 · OtherCASE WESTERN RESERVEMENLO SCHOOL: $640,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLCHANDNA FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST DAF: $454,000 · OtherCHANDNA FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST DAFMLT IMPACT FUND: $250,000 · OtherTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $193,700 · Other+16 more: $207,627 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $344,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UN…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $160,500 · EducationMassachusetts…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOA…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $150,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPARIKRMA USA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMAITRI: $12,070 · Human ServicesRealize Impact: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,476 · Human ServicesSHINE TOGETHER INC: $88,000 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY DISTRICT 6400 FOUNDATION: $30,000 · International+2 more: $1,284 · InternationalSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $16,175 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,704,327Education$814,500Philanthropy$260,000Human Services$118,546Youth Development$88,000International$31,284Arts & Culture$16,175

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMENLO SCHOOL: $640,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $344,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $193,700 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $160,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $150,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPARIKRMA USA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $88,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetROTARY DISTRICT 6400 FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $16,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAITRI: $12,070 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRealize Impact: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA: $1,476 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEYTHRI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSANO: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $284 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 MENLO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 ↗
  • Who funds PARIKRMA USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SHINE TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 6400 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds MAITRI ↗
  • Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Realize Impact ↗
  • Who funds MAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds NEYTHRI INC ↗
  • Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSANO ↗
  • Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Fede…Gordon E and Betty I …The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…Bright Funds Foundati…Greater Kansas City C…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Chandna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chandna 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chandna Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chandna Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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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