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Gurnani Foundation

THE FOUNDATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVLY FOR RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND LITERARY PURPOSES, THE MAKING OF DISTRIBUTIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT QUALIFY AS EXEMPT AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR NEEDY INDIVIDUALS Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check…

$261k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Human Services$390kCommunity Improvement$70kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$15kInternational$15kRecreation & Sports$13k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $204k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SADHU VASWANI CENTER$135,000
Individual grant recipient$69,449
GURANANI SATI & GOKAL CHARITABLE TRUST$20,000
GREATER NEVADA HINDU TEMPLE$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK$5,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$5,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER$5,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$5,000
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY$2,000
02The need
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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 giving84% of grant dollars ($454k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($89k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $305 → 11%RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY: $11k → 17%SADHU VASWANI CENTER: $135k → 7%VED MANDIR INC: $5k → 8%GREATER NEVADA HINDU TEMPLE: $10k → 10%RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFITS SERVICE: $5k → 7%SADHU VASWANI CENTER: $255k → 8%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%HINDU SAMAJ MANDIR: $1k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK: $5k → 17%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%ACTION AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 17%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 US16% of all-years giving ($89k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$89k · 2 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 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
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
2
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

4
Rhode Island Quality Institute

To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…

Health
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
7
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
8
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
9
Sanitation and Health Rights in India

SHRI fights alongside communities to end open defecation as a key step in an ongoing struggle for health equity and soical and economic justice.

International
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Kirtan Wallah Foundation 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, 2017–2025.

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. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SADHU VASWANI CENTER — $390,000 · OtherSADHU VASWANI CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $69,449 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGURANANI SATI & GOKAL CHARITABLE TRUST — $20,000 · Other+4 more — $16,305 · OtherCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 · HealthHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFIT SERVICESINC — $5,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $5,000 · InternationalRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $13,000 · Environment
Other$495,754Health$20,000International$15,000Environment$13,000

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 budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HUMAN BENEFIT SERVICESINC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc — $305 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gurnani 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–40%
    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.

    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 15 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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