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Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
93
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of GURU KRUPA FOUNDATION INC ATTN MUKUND PADMANABAHAN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$28,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA FOUNDATION$250,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$250,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$250,000
SRI RANGANATHA PADUKA VIDYALAYA TRUST$225,000
SRI PRATYAKSHA CHARITABLE TRUST$150,000
WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
SAMSKRITA BHARATI$100,000
IIT KHARAGPUR FOUNDATION$81,000
RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION$75,000
LITERACY NASSAU$75,000
ST NICKS ALLIANCE$75,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$70,000
ACTION FOR INDIA$60,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NY$60,000
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 giving — 70% of grant dollars ($18M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($7.7M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $902k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AIM FOR SEVA: $100k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA: $25k → 14%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $80k → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA: $25k → 14%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $80k → 12%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $50k → 12%LONG ISLAND CARES: $25k → 7%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $17k → 8%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $15k → 8%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $100k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $90k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNSIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $90k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $30k → 13%BOOK FAIRIES: $15k → 6%YOGA GIVES BACK: $35k → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $30k → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $30k → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $15k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 30% of all-years giving ($7.7M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$7.7M · 214 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 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 35% of Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 23% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahanlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 36% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 101 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
33

Total granted

$20M
$833k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

40%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +273%
  • SN
    ST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • IF
    IITKGP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
  • EV
    EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA
    one grant, 2019 · $52k

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
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
2
Us-India Policy Institute

Us-india policy institute (usipi)undertaking policy research on diversity and inclusive developments in india and the usa. usipis vision for equal access to freedom,justice, and opportunity in india rests on its three pillars; research &…

Arts & Culture
3
Pratham Usa

PRATHAM USA'S PRIMARY OBJECTIVES ARE (i) raising funds to support learning, (ii) increasing awareness about the challenges facing students and equitable approaches to improving learning outcomes at scale, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

Philanthropy
4
Planetread

Scale PlanetReads Same Language Subtitling SLS innovation on mainstream entertainment content on TV and streaming in all languages for three purposes: 1 reading literacy 2 media access and 3 language learning driven by a strategy for…

Education
5
Educate Girls

Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…

International
6
One Billion Literates Foundation Usa

Improve the social and economic conditions of the economically weaker and underprivileged sections of society in India; and improve the literacy rate in villages in India by imparting elementary education to children in these villages

Education
7
Ek Kadam Aur

Transforming lives of underprivileged children through education, technology, healthcare programs, and connection with a global network of qualified volunteers and mentors.

International
8
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

9
Room to Read

Room to read envisions a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality, where all children have room to read, learn and grow.

Education
10
Nanban Foundation

Nanban foundation strives to provide free, high-quality financial education for all. the organization functions with the support of volunteers united by one common goal: knowledge sharing. embracing online education, we invite people of…

Education
11
Iisc Foundation

The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…

Education
12
Sri Karunamayi Institute of Vedic Studies and Meditation Center

The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Book Fairies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacramento Mahaperiyavaa Mandali. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Senior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesDance Arts OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,502

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 155 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SRI RANGANATHA PADUKA VIDYALAYA TRUST — $2,080,000 · OtherSRI RANGANATHA PADUKA VIDYALAYA TRUSTSRI PRATYAKSHA CHARITABLE TRUST — $1,675,000 · OtherSRI PRATYAKSHA CHARITABLE TRUSTSRI RAMANUJA MISSION INC — $1,443,000 · OtherSRI RAMANUJA MISSION INCSRI RANGANATHA TEMPLE — $811,000 · OtherSRI RANGANATHA TEMPLEHINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA — $575,000 · Other+108 more — $7,935,085 · Other+108 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $4,800,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCLITERACY NASSAU INC — $423,800 · EducationLITERACY NASSAU INCFIRST BOOK — $225,000 · Education+11 more — $741,800 · Education+11 moreChildren International — $465,517 · InternationalEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA — $398,000 · InternationalIITKGP FOUNDATION — $125,000 · InternationalINDIA LITERACY PROJECT — $93,000 · International+3 more — $72,000 · InternationalCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $1,000,000 · Science & TechSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $147,600 · Science & TechSOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $360,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $310,000 · Human ServicesYoga Gives Back — $110,000 · Human ServicesHER FUTURE COALITION INC — $62,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA INC — $50,150 · Human Services+3 more — $71,500 · Human ServicesSAMSKRITA BHARTI — $419,027 · Arts & CultureLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $253,200 · Arts & CultureHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureFLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $32,000 · Arts & CultureREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $328,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $292,500 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBrighter Bites Inc — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$14,519,085Education$6,690,600International$1,153,517Science & Tech$1,147,600Human Services$963,650Arts & Culture$879,227Food & Nutrition$670,500

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $4,800,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChildren International — $465,517 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION — $425,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY NASSAU INC — $423,800 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetSAMSKRITA BHARTI — $419,027 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA — $398,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $360,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $328,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC — $310,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $292,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $253,200 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION — $205,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetLOTUS OUTREACH — $177,635 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC — $171,800 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $147,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIITKGP FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYoga Gives Back — $110,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC — $110,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetINDIA LITERACY PROJECT — $93,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND GIVING CIRCLE INC — $92,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC — $80,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE — $75,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $72,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHER FUTURE COALITION INC — $62,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJUPITER 360 FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $53,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA INC — $50,150 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINDIA HOME INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINK GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCRY-CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU AMERICA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD — $31,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetONE SCHOOL AT A TIME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826NYC Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON PARENT RESOURCE CTR — $22,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO MAHAPERIYAVAA MANDALI — $17,000 over 2y, 7.7% 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.

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  • Who funds SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA)
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK
  • Who funds RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LOTUS OUTREACH
  • Who funds BEHIND THE BOOK INC
  • Who funds SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds IITKGP FOUNDATION

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.

Globalgiving Foundation IncDC19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan 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 · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 155 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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