· Public charity
Desai Foundation
The DESAI FOUNDATION empowers women and children through community programs to elevate health, livelihood, menstrual equity in rural india.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF LINCOLN COA INC | $25,000 |
| TIE-BOSTON FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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: 59% of grant dollars ($162k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 41% that went abroad ($111k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 41% of all-years giving ($111k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +283% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICOMMUNITY IMPACT AT COLUMBIA2× · 2019–2020 · $17k
- TFTIE-BOSTON FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2020 · $13k
Funded once
- GVGRAM VIKAS TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $32k
- UVUNTDI VIBHAG KELAVNI MANDALone grant, 2017 · $25k
- AFABOUT FRESH INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ABOUT FRESH INC ↗
- Who funds TIE-BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asha for Education ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Desai Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desai Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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