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Dharini and Reggie Aggarwal Foundation at a glance

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Dharini and Reggie Aggarwal 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.

$5k
Granted FY2026still arriving
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Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$98kArts & Culture$20kInternational$9kHealth$3kPublic Benefit$3k
02FY2026 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,110
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY$5,110
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL: $3k → 14%WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 6%GLOBAL INDIA FUND: $5k → 7%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $5k → 17%SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: $5k → 14%WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 6%SHAKESPEARE THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 14%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $50k → 6%SHAKESPEARE THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 14%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $15k → 6%THE POTOMAC SCHOOL: $15k → 6%COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 6%COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 6%COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1k → 6%COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 6%FOUNDATION FOR FCPS: $3k → 6%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 4 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$108k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25’26
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TP
    The Potomac School
    3× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +31%
  • TS
    THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
    3× · 2020–2026 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • WT
    WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -3%
  • GI
    GLOBAL INDIA FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

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The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
Pahara Institute Inc

Pahara institute strengthens and sustains values-driven leaders who are transforming public education so that every child is prepared to lead a free and fulfilling life.

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4
Taipei American School Foundation

Taipei american school's mission is to cultivate an enduring commitment to learning, personal well-being, and service. tas provides a broad american-based education with a global perspective that develops students of character who are…

Education
5
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education
9
Trillium Academy

The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…

Education
10
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
11
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
12
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global India Fund Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Potomac School: $80,000 · EducationThe Potomac SchoolTeach for America Inc: $5,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $10,110 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE T…WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDAT…COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR FCPS: $2,500 · OtherPRATHAM USA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL INDIA FUND INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $4,200 · Public Safety & DisasterProvidence Hospital: $2,500 · Health
Education$85,000Arts & Culture$20,110Other$10,500Philanthropy$5,000International$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,200Health$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Potomac School: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $10,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL INDIA FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence Hospital: $2,500 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.

Greater Washington Co…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Dharini and Reggie Aggarwal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dharini and Reggie Aggarwal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 10 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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