How much does Chowdary Family Foundation give?

Chowdary Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $48,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Chowdary Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Religion (14%), International (12%).

Who are Chowdary Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc ($19k), Lehigh Valley Health Network ($18k), Community Services for Children Inc ($17k).

Does Chowdary Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Chowdary Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chowdary Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ppl Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, The Century Fund Trust.

Where is Chowdary Family Foundation based?

Chowdary Family Foundation is based in PA.

Chowdary Family Foundation

Chowdary Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Chowdary Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$107kReligion$50kInternational$41kHuman Services$38kFood & Nutrition$24kHousing & Shelter$21kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$718k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GOOD SHEPHERD	$1,000
USA FOR UNHCR	$1,000
LOWER MACUNGIE LIBRARY	$1,000
USO	$1,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY	$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$1,000

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.

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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($69k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

India$69k · 13 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$324k · 85 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$324k

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+26%

Still filing today

59%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

MO
MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +17%
LV
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK
4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
CS
COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +413%

Funded once

H
HYDERABAD
one grant, 2022 · $8k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $8k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $2k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

United States Pharmacopeial Convention

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.

Health

Asco Association

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…

Community Improvement

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International; 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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 119 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)

63/66

Grantees still filing

39/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$213,849International$46,375Health$26,375Education$24,212Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$17,600Housing & Shelter$4,300

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.

Ppl FoundationPA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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