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Dr Upali P Weerasooriya

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.

$60k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,700
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$103k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Dr Upali P Weerasooriya funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Food & NutritionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$60k41%
FY202315$114k53%
FY202211$256k45%
FY202118$195k67%
FY202018$167kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$250kCrime & Legal$151kEducation$142kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$30kReligion$30kCivil Rights$25kInternational$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
OH
NJ
UT
NE
MD
TN
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Safe Alliance$317,00050%
Austin Buddhist Center Inc$23,5005n/a
Caritas of Austin$5,10020%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Faith in Practice$1,90020%
Mahabodhi International Buddhist Center$95023%
Hurricane Swim Team$85031%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$40040%
10000 Fearless First Responders$25010%
St Josephs Indian School$2001n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Dr Upali P Weerasooriya by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Safe Alliance$317,00050%
Austin Buddhist Center Inc$23,5005n/a
Caritas of Austin$5,10020%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Faith in Practice$1,90020%
Mahabodhi International Buddhist Center$95023%
Hurricane Swim Team$85031%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$40040%
10000 Fearless First Responders$25010%
St Josephs Indian School$2001n/a
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc$20020%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$20020%
Habitat for Humanity$10011%

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($437k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr Upali P Weerasooriya supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Safe Alliance: $317,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCaritas of Austin: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith in Practice: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMahabodhi International Buddhist Center: $950 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHurricane Swim Team: $850 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budget10000 Fearless First Responders: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $100 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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About Dr Upali P Weerasooriya

How much does Dr Upali P Weerasooriya give?
Dr Upali P Weerasooriya reported 23 grants totaling $60,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Dr Upali P Weerasooriya fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Crime & Legal (19%), Education (18%).
Who are Dr Upali P Weerasooriya's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Safe Alliance ($317k), Austin Buddhist Center Inc ($24k), Caritas of Austin ($5k).
Does Dr Upali P Weerasooriya fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dr Upali P Weerasooriya 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.
Where is Dr Upali P Weerasooriya based?
Dr Upali P Weerasooriya is based in TX.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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