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Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MReligion$4.7MInternational$2.3MScience & Tech$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$882kYouth Development$695kOther$0
02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SAMSKRITA BHARATI$100,000
WIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
IIT KHARAGPUR FOUNDATION$81,000
RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION$75,000
ST NICKS ALLIANCE$75,000
LITERACY NASSAU$75,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$70,000
REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NY$60,000
ACTION FOR INDIA$60,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
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.

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.

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Its 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 its 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 COUNSIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: $90k → 13%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL 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
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.

Which US states its 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
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 35% of Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 23%.

Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahanlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 36% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Book Fairies Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & NutritionBrighter Bites Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetIITKGP FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 13% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetINDIA HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SCHOOL AT A TIME INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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
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.

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  • Who funds SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
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  • 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 ↗
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  • Who funds LOTUS OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds BEHIND THE BOOK INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Globalgiving Foundati…Bright Funds Foundati…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The New York Communit…Mother Cabrini Health…Investors Foundation …Nora Roberts Foundati…Salesforce FoundationPine Tree Foundation …
Globalgiving Foundation IncDC19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Pine Tree Foundation of New York

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 Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guru Krupa Foundation Inc Attn Mukund Padmanabahan. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% 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, 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 155 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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