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Chittaranjan a Patel Family 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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$227k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$897kReligion$228kPhilanthropy$85kEducation$31kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $347k
$120,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BHAGYODAY FOUNDATION$227,000
SARDARDHAM USA NFP$120,000
AKSHAR PATRA FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY19–23, $369k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDO US FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%INDO US FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%INDO US FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%INDO US FOUNDATION: $59k → 14%INDO US FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$987k · 8 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +93% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$987k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+93%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • IF
    INDO-US FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $369k · revenue +2%
  • SU
    SARDARDHAM USA NFP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $240k · revenue +88%
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $173k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • IU
    INDO US FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
  • ID
    INDIA DEVELOOPMENT SERVICE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA USA
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
2
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
3
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Swami Dayanand Education Foundation
Education
5
Sadvidya Foundation

Education

Religion
6
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
7
The Kailash Goyal Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Divyajyot Foundation Inc

Providing medical services to needy in india.

Religion
9
India House Foundation

India House Foundation is dedicated to the protection of democracy and human rights in India, from the perspective of Indian-Americans based in the USA.

Civil Rights
10
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
11
Nirdosh Seva Foundation
Health
12
Forum for Religious Freedom

Foster & protect the religious diversity and pluralism, protecting, preserving, rejuvenating and disseminating information about non aggressive religious traditions

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa); the most unlike its peers is Gayatri Gyan Mandir. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BHAGYODAY FOUNDATION: $227,000 · OtherBHAGYODAY FOUNDATIONAKSHAR PATRA FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherAKSHAR PATRA FOUNDATIONINDO US FOUNDATION USA: $65,000 · OtherINDO US FOUNDATION USAIndia Development Service: $45,000 · OtherIndia Development ServiceIndividual grant recipient: $29,230 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $6,500 · OtherINDO-US FOUNDATION: $369,030 · Human ServicesINDO-US FOUNDATIONSARDARDHAM USA NFP: $240,000 · EducationSARDARDHAM USA NFPAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $173,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA F…EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $31,025 · InternationalBLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $15,000 · InternationalGAYATRI GYAN MANDIR: $1,000 · Religion
Other$457,730Human Services$369,030Education$240,000Food & Nutrition$173,000International$46,025Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDO-US FOUNDATION: $369,030 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSARDARDHAM USA NFP: $240,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $173,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIndia Development Service: $45,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $31,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGAYATRI GYAN MANDIR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 INDO-US FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SARDARDHAM USA NFP ↗
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds India Development Service ↗
  • Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
  • Who funds BLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA ↗
  • Who funds MANAV SADHNA ↗
  • Who funds GAYATRI GYAN MANDIR ↗

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.

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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 Chittaranjan a Patel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chittaranjan a Patel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Chittaranjan a Patel Family 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 14 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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