· Private foundation
Chowdary Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| HEALING THE CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR SMILES | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $1,700 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY | $1,301 |
| AKSHAYA PATRA | $1,000 |
| SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS | $1,000 |
| USO | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $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 US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($284k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($69k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($69k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
85 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +17%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +413%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- HHYDERABADone grant, 2022 · $8k
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2024 · $2k
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 41 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 119 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 MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING THE CHILDREN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds KATIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds MANJARI SANKURATHRI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds LOWER MACUNGIE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEHIGH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
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: Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Century Fund Trust · Air Products Foundation · The Topper Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr 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 Chowdary Family 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.