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Indiaspora

Transforming the success of the indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide.

$820k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$354k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.9MCivil Rights$522kFood & Nutrition$460kEducation$417kInternational$50kEnvironment$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $452k
  • $250k+1 grant · $354k
$159,020
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVE FOUNDATION$354,045
EDELGIVE FOUNDATION$243,122
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EDELGIVE$159,020
THE DESAI FOUNDATION$50,000
FOOD BANK NYC$5,150
02The need
03

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: 85% of grant dollars ($2.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($534k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIVE FOUNDATION: $387k → 8%GIVE FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 9%BAY AREA COUNCIL: $10k → 10%GIVE FOUNDATION: $354k → 9%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.

Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($534k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$534k · 4 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 4 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$3.3M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-21%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GF
    GIVE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.9M · revenue -129% · 34% of their budget
  • AI
    AFEF INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $522k · revenue +117%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2021 · $455k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $106k
  • E1
    EB 1 BILLION BREATHS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -21%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,892,588 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesEDELGIVE FOUNDATION: $417,289 · OtherEDELGIVE FOUNDATI…Individual grant recipient: $106,000 · OtherIndividual grant …+1 more: $10,257 · OtherAFEF INC: $522,028 · Civil RightsAFEF INCFeeding America: $454,835 · Food & NutritionFeeding Americ…DESAI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,150 · Community Improvement
Human Services$1,902,588Other$533,546Civil Rights$522,028Food & Nutrition$454,835Philanthropy$50,000Community Improvement$5,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,892,588 over 3y, 34% of budgetAFEF INC: $522,028 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetFeeding America: $454,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Indiaspora funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indiaspora. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Indiaspora?

    Find your warmest path to Indiaspora through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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