Massachusetts · Public charity
Desai Foundation
The DESAI FOUNDATION empowers women and children through community programs to elevate health, livelihood, menstrual equity in rural india. To develop and implement educational programs to promote indian culture and heritage in the united states.
- $43k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $31k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Desai Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $30k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $73k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $88k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Lincoln Council on Aging | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| About Fresh Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tie-Boston Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Middlesex Community College Foundation C/O Jackson Chege | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Impact Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American India Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Asha for Education | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Summer Search | $400 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Desai Foundation
- How much does Desai Foundation give?
- Desai Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $31,000, out of $43,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Desai Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Desai Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Lincoln Council on Aging ($25k), About Fresh Inc ($20k), Tie-Boston Foundation Inc ($16k).
- Does Desai Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Desai Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Desai Foundation based?
- Desai Foundation is based in MA.
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