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Indira Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$264k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$5.0MScience & Tech$1.9MHealth$1.8MInternational$1.5MArts & Culture$193kFood & Nutrition$171kReligion$139kHuman Services$133kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $264k
$41,520
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SQUARE FOUNDATION$263,850
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$242,643
GRAMIN ADIWASI SAMAJ VIKAS SANSTHAN SAUSAR$176,650
PATH$174,385
PEOPLES ACTION FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION$131,085
ROOM TO READ INDIA TRUST$119,000
PARIVAAR EDUCATION SOCIETY$118,640
MAKER BHAVAN FOUNDATION$117,000
BASIC HEALTH CARE SERVICES TRUST$89,625
AKSHAYA PATRA USA$87,200
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEURO SCIENCES$68,040
SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA LOVE AND CARE - USA INC$66,900
CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION$61,000
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR$49,100
AGA KHAN FOUNDATION$41,520
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: 68% of grant dollars ($7.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 32% that went abroad ($3.5M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $501) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $501 → 16%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
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
TX

Beyond the US: 32% of all-years giving ($3.5M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$3.5M · 49 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 50 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
33

Total granted

$9.4M
$794k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $578k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • PF
    PROMYS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $878k · revenue +28% · 56% of their budget
  • MB
    Maker Bhavan Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $494k · revenue ×18
  • TN
    The Nudge Foundation
    3× · 2018–2020 · $313k · revenue ×21 · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • IH
    IIT HYDERBAD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    one grant, 2022 · $126k
  • EC
    EXCELLENCE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $77k
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
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
2
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
3
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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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Desai Foundation
Education
6
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
7
Arihanta Institute

Arihanta academys mission is to build a world-class online institution for deeper learning of the jain tradition, its principles, and how these principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals and society in…

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
10
Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in such activity as may be necessary, appropriate or otherwise helpful to support, provide assistance to or perform functions of aravind eye hospital and postgraduate institute of ophthamology…

Health
11
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Foundation

The specific purposes for which the Foundation is organized are to fund and promote overall betterment of Indian Institute Of Technology,Kanpur and its students,faculty and alumni body.

Education
12
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akanksha Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Asian Public Health Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 94 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IFRE INC (ASHOKA UNIVERSITY): $1,490,000 · OtherIFRE INC (ASHOKA UNIVERSITY)ROOM TO READ INDIA TRUST: $705,550 · OtherROOM TO READ INDIA TRUSTRAMAKRISHNA MISSION: $441,500 · OtherRAMAKRISHNA MISSIONPARIVAAR EDUCATION SOCIETY: $344,390 · OtherPARIVAAR EDUCATION SOCIETYGRAMIN ADIWASI SAMAJ VIKAS SANSTHAN SAUSAR: $325,850 · OtherGRAMIN ADIWASI SAMAJ VIKAS SANSTHAN SAUSARIIT HYDERBAD FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherCENTRAL SQUARE FOUNDATION: $263,850 · OtherPEOPLES ACTION FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION: $261,785 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $242,643 · Other+50 more: $1,363,457 · Other+50 morePROMYS FOUNDATION: $878,437 · EducationPROMYS FOUNDATIONDAKSHANA FOUNDATION: $536,000 · EducationDAKSHANA FOUNDATIONMaker Bhavan Foundation: $494,002 · EducationMaker Bhavan FoundationROSEBAY MONTESSORI: $205,000 · EducationROSEBAY MONTESSORIIIT Gandhinagar Foundation: $140,050 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $130,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationArpan Foundation Inc: $124,850 · EducationFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC: $113,350 · Education+8 more: $230,376 · Education+8 moreAKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC: $324,525 · InternationalAKANKSHA EDUCA…The Nudge Foundation: $312,500 · InternationalThe Nudge Foun…EDUCATE GIRLS: $236,008 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLSPATH: $229,710 · InternationalPATHST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $133,400 · InternationalST JUDE INDIA …IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $103,000 · InternationalIIT Bombay Her…SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA LOVE AND CARE -USA INC: $91,200 · InternationalSHRIMAD RAJCHA…+2 more: $9,100 · InternationalAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $245,400 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,001 · Food & NutritionCenter for Excellence in Education: $217,000 · Science & TechActive Minds Inc: $170,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $8,500 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $8,500 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $135,000 · Employment
Other$5,739,025Education$2,977,065International$1,439,443Food & Nutrition$246,401Science & Tech$217,000Health$187,500Employment$135,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROMYS FOUNDATION: $878,437 over 4y, 56% of budgetDAKSHANA FOUNDATION: $536,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetMaker Bhavan Foundation: $494,002 over 6y, 18% of budgetAKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC: $324,525 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetThe Nudge Foundation: $312,500 over 3y, 37% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $245,400 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $236,008 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPATH: $229,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $217,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetROSEBAY MONTESSORI: $205,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $170,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIIT Gandhinagar Foundation: $140,050 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $133,400 over 3y, 39% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $130,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArpan Foundation Inc: $124,850 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC: $113,350 over 2y, 13% of budgetIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $103,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA LOVE AND CARE -USA INC: $91,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO: $26,217 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN FINE ARTS ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO: $11,975 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $6,826 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSUMEC FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHINDU HERITAGE ENDOWMENT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,148 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAHAANA: $540 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSewa International Inc: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Dance Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAMELAN SEKAR JAYA: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ASIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds PROMYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAKSHANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Maker Bhavan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Nudge Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATE GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
  • Who funds ROSEBAY MONTESSORI ↗
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
  • Who funds IIT Gandhinagar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Arpan Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA LOVE AND CARE -USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY 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 Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationAmerican Online Givin…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The US Charitable Gif…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Globalgiving Foundation IncDC14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 94 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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