· Private foundation
Desai Sethi Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $500k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE LAW SCHOOL JACKSON WILLIS | $100,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL JULIA UDELL | $75,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL AVI GUPTA | $75,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL JEREMY THOMAS | $75,000 |
| STANFORD MEDICINE HARRISON ZHANG | $62,500 |
| YALE MANAGEMENT RITTER HENRY | $61,078 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL RODRIGO ESTRADA | $50,000 |
| STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINES | $50,000 |
| STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINES | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY GEORGE SABA | $50,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL LIANA WANG | $50,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AVI JONAH CO | $50,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BRADY HANSHA | $50,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL CLARA SHANABROOK | $50,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL SIONA PRASAD | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $677k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYALE LAW SCHOOL AVI GUPTA2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ITF BERVELL3× · 2022–2024 · $100k
- YLYALE LAW SCHOOL JULIA UDELL2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
Funded once
- PTPursuit Transformation Company Incone grant, 2021 · $200k
- YSYALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ITF SHAH NIone grant, 2022 · $100k
- YLYALE LAW SCHOOL ITF GONZALEZ JACOBone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 146 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Desai Sethi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desai Sethi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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