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Deshpande Family Foundation at a glance

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Deshpande Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$34kScience & Tech$30kArts & Culture$20kInternational$15kAnimals$11kHealth$6kEnvironment$1k
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$612k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINMAYA MISSION BOSTON$11,000
EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA$10,000
SAMSKRITA BHARATI$10,000
FRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATION$5,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$5,000
RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP$5,000
NE-SRS BRUNDAVAN$5,000
PRERNA PERFORMING ARTS$2,000
PAN-MASS CHALLENGE$1,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PAN-MASS CHALLENGE: $2k → 7%NE-SRS BRUNDAVAN: $5k → 8%CHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTON: $11k → 10%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 16%SAMSKRITA BHARATI: $10k → 8%SAMSKRITA BHARATI: $10k → 11%EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $10k → 16%ARADHANE COMMITTEE: $201 → 17%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $500 → 7%MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1k → 8%CHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTON: $11k → 10%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NE: $5k → 16%SAMSKRITA BHARATI: $10k → 8%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $500 → 7%PRERNA PERFORMING ARTS: $2k → 8%CHINMAYA MISSION BOSTON: $11k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTON: $11k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $5k → 16%VISION AID: $5k → 8%CHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTON: $1k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $5k → 16%MANDAARA - NEW ENGLAND KANNADA KOOTA: $10k → 8%COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION: $1k → 16%RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 16%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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 5 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$128k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsAnimalsEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • SB
    SAMSKRITA BHARTI
    3× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +252%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2023–2026 · $3k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • ME
    MANDAARA-NEW ENGLAND KANNADA KOOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • VI
    VISION-AID INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CZ
    COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +14%
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
Ek Kadam Aur

Transforming lives of underprivileged children through education, technology, healthcare programs, and connection with a global network of qualified volunteers and mentors.

International
2
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
3
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
4
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
5
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
6
Nanban Foundation

Nanban foundation strives to provide free, high-quality financial education for all. the organization functions with the support of volunteers united by one common goal: knowledge sharing. embracing online education, we invite people of…

Education
7
Swaniti Initiative

Our mission is to help build strong and supportive ecosystems that can stand up to the realities of a changing climate. today, countries are expected to transition quickly to cleaner energy, strengthen social protection and improve systems…

Public Benefit
8
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
9
Inde Ed Project
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10
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
11
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
12
International Eye Foundation

International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England; the most unlike its peers is Rwanda Youth Partnership. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCESAMSKRITA BHARTI: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAMSKRITA BHARTI+1 more: $201 · Arts & CultureCHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTON: $45,000 · OtherCHINMAYA MISSION OF BOSTONNE SRS BRUNDAVAN INC: $5,000 · OtherNE SRS BRUNDAVAN INCFRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATIONPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,500 · OtherPRERNA PERFORMING ARTS: $2,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATI…EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $10,000 · InternationalEKAL VIDY…RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 · InternationalRWANDA YO…MANDAARA-NEW ENGLAND KANNADA KOOTA: $10,000 · ReligionVISION-AID INCORPORATED: $5,000 · HealthCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $1,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$65,201Other$59,500Civil Rights$15,000International$15,000Religion$10,000Health$5,000Animals$1,000Environment$1,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMSKRITA BHARTI: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANDAARA-NEW ENGLAND KANNADA KOOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetVISION-AID INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARADHANA COMMITTEE: $201 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 Deshpande Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deshpande Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Deshpande Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deshpande Family Foundation 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 15 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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