California · Private foundation
Indira Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $41,520
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $263,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Indira Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $2.0M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.2M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.3M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $568k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $714k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.4M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promys Foundation | $878,437 | 4 | 56% |
| Dakshana Foundation | $536,000 | 3 | 30% |
| Maker Bhavan Foundation | $494,002 | 6 | 18% |
| Akanksha Education Fund Inc | $324,525 | 4 | 9% |
| The Nudge Foundation | $312,500 | 3 | 37% |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $245,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Educate Girls | $236,008 | 2 | 1% |
| Path | $229,710 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $217,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rosebay Montessori | $205,000 | 2 | 45% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Indira Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Indira Foundation
- How much does Indira Foundation give?
- Indira Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,001,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Indira Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Science & Tech (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are Indira Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Promys Foundation ($878k), Dakshana Foundation ($536k), Maker Bhavan Foundation ($494k).
- Does Indira Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Indira Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Indira Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Globalgiving Foundation Inc, Bright Funds Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Indira Foundation based?
- Indira Foundation is based in CA.
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