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Deena & Pravin Shah Family Foundation In

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.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$246kHealth$121kCommunity Improvement$114kArts & Culture$35kYouth Development$28kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$9kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
$10,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Virtual Enterprises Int Inc$44,000
Sister Nivedita Foundation$40,000
Street Squash$10,300
The Buckley School$10,000
Telluride Arts$5,000
Muni Seva Charitable Foundation USA$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Vipassana Meditation Ctr: $5k → 14%Mercy College: $9k → 9%The Buckley School: $10k → 17%National Dance Institute: $10k → 12%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $40k → 12%Brown University: $10k → 14%Telluride Arts: $10k → 7%Muni Seva Charitable Foundation USA: $2k → 14%Share and Care Foundation: $5k → 7%Mercy College: $7k → 9%Virtual Enterprises Int Inc: $44k → 17%Lensic Performing Arts: $5k → 12%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $35k → 12%Brown University: $5k → 14%Telluride Arts: $5k → 7%Share and Care Foundation: $3k → 7%Mercy College: $5k → 9%Virtual Enterprises Int Inc: $35k → 17%Solace Sexual Assult Services: $5k → 12%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $35k → 12%Brown University: $5k → 14%Go Hawkeye Foundation: $4k → 7%Share and Care Foundation: $3k → 7%White Plains Hospital Foundation: $18k → 9%Street Squash: $15k → 17%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $25k → 12%Go Hawkeye Foundation: $3k → 7%Share and Care Foundation: $3k → 7%Westchester Medical Center Foundati: $60k → 9%Virtual Enterprises Int Inc: $22k → 17%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $25k → 12%Telluride Arts: $3k → 7%Westchester Medical Center Foundati: $25k → 9%Street Squash: $10k → 17%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $20k → 12%Mountain Film Festival: $3k → 7%Westchester Medical Foundation: $10k → 9%Virtual Enterprises Int Inc: $13k → 17%Sister Nivedita Foundation: $15k → 12%Go Hawkeye Foundation: $2k → 7%Westchester Medical Center Foundati: $8k → 9%Street Squash: $3k → 17%Telluride Theatre: $1k → 7%Sheridan Opera House: $1k → 7%Telluride AIDS Benefits: $1k → 7%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
OH
NJ
RI
CO
NM
SC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$490k · 8 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$490k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+63%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SN
    SISTER NIVEDITA FOUNDATION USA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $195k · revenue +19% · 26% of their budget
  • SI
    STREETSQUASH INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +37%
  • MU
    MERCY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2022 · $21k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +71%
  • WM
    Westchester Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
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
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Dominican University New York

Promote educational excellence, leadership, & service via a strong commitment to our students.

—
4
Mount Mary University Inc

Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…

—
5
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
6
St Joseph's University New York

The university provides an affordable liberal arts education to a diverse group of students.

Education
7
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
10
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University

Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social…

Education
11
Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share and Care Foundation for India; the most unlike its peers is Muni Seva Charitable Foundation Usa Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Virtual Enterprises Int Inc: $114,400 · OtherVirtual Enterprises Int IncWestchester Medical Center Foundati: $92,500 · OtherWestchester Medical Center FoundatiTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $17,500 · OtherTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURID…Westchester Medical Foundation: $10,000 · OtherThe Buckley School: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $27,200 · Other+6 moreSISTER NIVEDITA FOUNDATION USA INC: $195,000 · InternationalSISTER NIVEDITA FOUNDATION USA INCSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $12,500 · InternationalSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalSTREETSQUASH INC: $27,800 · Recreation & SportsMERCY UNIVERSITY: $21,300 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $17,500 · HealthTELLURIDE AIDS BENEFIT INC: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$271,600International$209,500Recreation & Sports$27,800Education$21,300Community Improvement$20,000Health$18,500Arts & Culture$11,000

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 budgetSISTER NIVEDITA FOUNDATION USA INC: $195,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $27,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $21,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $17,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTELLURIDE AIDS BENEFIT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Deena & Pravin Shah Family Foundation In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deena & Pravin Shah Family Foundation In. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Deena & Pravin Shah Family Foundation In 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 21 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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