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India Foundation

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations India Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalAnimalsHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$17k21%
FY202417$923k18%
FY202311$36k27%
FY202212$53k42%
FY202111$40k9%
FY202011$41k36%
FY201916$46k38%
FY201714$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.1MInternational$31kCrime & Legal$13kArts & Culture$8kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$8kAnimals$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
HI
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment$927,5007n/a
Bharatiya Temple of Lansing Inc$28,7237n/a
Heroic Hearts Organization NFP$15,15030%
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center$8,00041%
Fair Food Network Inc$7,50030%
Michigan State University$7,0002n/a
Human Kindness Foundation$7,00081%
Hindu Heritage Endowment$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00030%
Human Appeal$2,70010%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of India Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment$927,5007n/a
Bharatiya Temple of Lansing Inc$28,7237n/a
Heroic Hearts Organization NFP$15,15030%
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center$8,00041%
Fair Food Network Inc$7,50030%
Michigan State University$7,0002n/a
Human Kindness Foundation$7,00081%
Hindu Heritage Endowment$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00030%
Human Appeal$2,70010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$2,50020%
International Aid Charity$2,50010%
South Asian Council for Social Services Inc$2,50010%
Ingham County Humane Society$2,50010%
Cia Officers Memorial Foundation$2,00020%
Animal Placement Bureau$2,00041%
Jain Society of Greater Detroit Shah$1,75240%
Global Water Challenge$1,07010%
Michigan Sangeetha Natya Academy$1,0001n/a
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation$1,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$50010%
City Rescue Mission of Lansing Mich$5001n/a
Hope for Widows$25011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget India Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeroic Hearts Organization NFP: $15,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLansing Art Gallery & Education Center: $8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFair Food Network Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Kindness Foundation: $7,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHindu Heritage Endowment: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Appeal: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Aid Charity: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Asian Council for Social Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIngham County Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCia Officers Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Placement Bureau: $2,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJain Society of Greater Detroit Shah: $1,752 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Water Challenge: $1,070 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Widows: $250 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 19.

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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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About India Foundation

How much does India Foundation give?
India Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $16,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does India Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (93%), International (3%), Crime & Legal (1%).
Who are India Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment ($928k), Bharatiya Temple of Lansing Inc ($29k), Heroic Hearts Organization NFP ($15k).
Does India Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as India Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is India Foundation based?
India Foundation is based in MI.

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 40 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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