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Dr Hira Lal Memorial Charitable 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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$38kCrime & Legal$6kHousing & Shelter$3kCommunity Improvement$2kReligion$1kYouth Development$500Human Services$200Recreation & Sports$150Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GURUDWARA SINGH SABHA OF TULARE COUNTY$1,100
UCLA FUND$1,000
Individual grant recipient$250
VISALIA RESCUE MISSION$64
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

Your US giving70% of grant dollars ($42k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($18k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UCLA FUND: $1k → 14%Visalia Rescue Mission: $600 → 18%YMCA: $635 → 19%TOVE FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%VISALIA RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 18%Cairns Funeral Home: $200 → 19%YOUNG LIFE TULARE COUNTY: $100 → 18%HINDU TEMPLE OF FRESNO: $101 → 19%YOUNG LIFE TULARE COUNTY: $100 → 18%VISALIA RESCUE MISSION: $64 → 18%Golden West Hight School Dane: $50 → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY CHILDRENS FUND: $2k → 18%VISALIA RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY CHILDRENS FUND: $2k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY CHILDRENS FUND: $2k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%VISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 18%VISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%CASA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%VISALIA BREAKFAST ROTARY: $250 → 18%ARTS OF VISALIA: $100 → 18%CASA of Tulare: $100 → 18%SOUTH VALLEY BHARJAN GROUP: $100 → 18%Foodlink for Tulare: $100 → 18%COS FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%COS FOUNDATION: $3k → 18%COS FOUNDATION: $3k → 18%WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3k → 18%COS Foundation: $2k → 18%COS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%GURUDWARA SINGH SABHA OF TULARE COUNTY: $1k → 18%WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $955 → 18%WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $857 → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SEQUOIAS: $500 → 18%MIA TREVINO: $220 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Beyond the US30% of all-years giving ($18k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$18k · 6 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$44k · 9 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$44k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+61%

Still filing today

44%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementReligionArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CO
    College of the Sequoias Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +157%
  • CO
    CASA OF TULARE COUNTY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +45%
  • VC
    VISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • VE
    VIVIKTHA EDUCTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TF
    TOVP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $635

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Visalia Emergency Aid Council Inc

Feed and shelter the poor

Human Services
2
Visalia Arts Consortium Inc

Support and conduct non-partisan education, and informational activities to increase public awareness of local artists and art organizations

Arts & Culture
3
Tulare County Deputy Sheriffs Benevolent Association

Enhance the community quality of life

Youth Development
4
Tulare County Workforce Investment Board Incorporated

Commitment to the prosperity of tulare county by shaping and steering the workforce development system.

Public Benefit
5
Vallejo Chamber of Commerce

The purpose is to promote a healthy business environment in the city of Vallejo.

6
Visalia Education Foundation

To enhance and support education and educational projects of the visalia unified school district

Education
7
Tulare Chamber of Commerce

The activities of the Chamber include numerous community events and business promotions for the Tulare area. The express purpose of the Chamber is to provide economic development opportunities to recruit and retain business enterprises…

8
Tulare County Library Foundation

Assistance to library system

Education
9
United Way of Tulare County

United way of tulare county strengthens communities.

Philanthropy
10
Temecula Valley Wine Growers Association

To promote the interests of wineries in the temecula valley area of riverside county, california, and to represent the wineries of that area as a distinct segment of the california wine industry.

Community Improvement
11
Tulare County Fair Heritage Foundation Inc

Preserve and enrich the ag assocation in tulare county.

Youth Development
12
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts Visalia and the most unlike its peers is Hindu Temple of Fresno. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIVIKTHA EDUCTION FOUNDATION — $10,352 · OtherVIVIKTHA EDUCTION FOUNDATIONCASA OF TULARE COUNTY CHILDRENS FUND — $5,630 · OtherCASA OF TULARE COUNTY CHILDRENS FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $4,683 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $4,646 · OtherWASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLVISALIA RESCUE MISSION — $3,064 · OtherVISALIA RESCUE MISSIONIndividual grant recipient — $2,675 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more — $4,105 · Other+12 moreCollege of the Sequoias Foundation — $14,643 · EducationCollege of the Sequoias Found…UCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCASA OF TULARE COUNTY — $5,880 · Civil RightsCASA OF TUL…VISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,400 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TULARE COUNTY INC — $500 · Youth DevelopmentHINDU TEMPLE OF FRESNO — $101 · ReligionARTS VISALIA — $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$35,155Education$15,643Civil Rights$5,880Community Improvement$2,400Youth Development$500Religion$101Arts & Culture$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCollege of the Sequoias Foundation — $14,643 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF TULARE COUNTY — $5,880 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISALIA RESCUE MISSION — $3,064 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TULARE COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS VISALIA — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds College of the Sequoias Foundation
  • Who funds CASA OF TULARE COUNTY
  • Who funds VISALIA RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds VISALIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TULARE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HINDU TEMPLE OF FRESNO
  • Who funds ARTS VISALIA

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dr Hira Lal Memorial Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dr Hira Lal Memorial Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dr Hira Lal Memorial Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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