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Dalal Charitable Trust

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.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$221kReligion$21kHealth$20kEducation$12kPhilanthropy$8kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$2kHuman Services$208Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$330
Median grant
6
States reached
$404k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA$15,000
DY SCHOOL DIST$12,000
AMERICA INDIA FOUNDATION$8,000
ST JUDE$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$500
ARSHA VIDYA CENTER$330
ALZHIEMER ASSOCIATION$300
Individual grant recipient$151
INDIAN CIRCLE FOR CARING$108
Individual grant recipient$30
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $17k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $16k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $16k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $15k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $15k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $15k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $15k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $10k → 12%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Dalal Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dalal Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 49% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 13 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$274k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

54%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • AI
    ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +99%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +113%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • UF
    USA FOR UN REFUGEE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +120%
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
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
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
4
International Vaccine Institute

To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.

International
5
The Desai Foundation
Education
6
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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8
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
12
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arsha Vidya Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $118,800 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INCTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONARSHA-VIDYA-PITAM: $19,831 · OtherARSHA-VIDYA-PITAMPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $17,874 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE…DY SCHOOL DIST: $12,000 · OtherDY SCHOOL DISTVARIOUS SMALL DONATIONS: $9,522 · OtherVARIOUS SMALL DONATIONSSAN FRANCISCO MARINE FOOF BANK: $3,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Other+12 more: $6,264 · Other+12 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalDESAI FOUNDATION: $1,700 · PhilanthropyARSHA VIDYA CENTER: $830 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250 · HealthWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30 · Environment
Human Services$118,800Public Safety & Disaster$95,000Other$70,991International$2,000Philanthropy$1,700Arts & Culture$830Health$750Environment$30

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $118,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $17,874 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARSHA VIDYA CENTER: $830 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25 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 ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds DESAI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARSHA VIDYA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dalal Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dalal Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 26 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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