California · Private foundation
Dhanam Foundation
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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2020
- 47
- Grants FY2020
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Dhanam Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 29 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Dhanam Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $12M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $4,628,379
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 5
- Total assets, FY2020
- $254M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Dhanam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 38 | $12M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $5.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Exploratorium | $3,985,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $3,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| African Parks Foundation of America | $2,738,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco | $2,335,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Iit Madras Foundation | $1,800,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Agastya USA | $1,680,000 | 4 | 83% |
| Magic Bus USA | $1,525,000 | 5 | 35% |
| Anita Borg Institute for Technology | $1,017,380 | 5 | 1% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Give Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dhanam Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Shg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Wadhwani Charitable Foundation · Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Dhanam Foundation
- How much does Dhanam Foundation give?
- Dhanam Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $12,111,345 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
- What does Dhanam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Education (27%), Science & Tech (6%).
- Who are Dhanam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Exploratorium ($4.0M), The Barack Obama Foundation ($3.0M), African Parks Foundation of America ($2.7M).
- Does Dhanam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dhanam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dhanam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Dhanam Foundation based?
- Dhanam Foundation is based in CA.
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