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Indus Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Indus Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$151kHuman Services$134kEducation$127kCommunity Improvement$83kSocial Science$79kEnvironment$50kYouth Development$48kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC$25,000
PURE EARTH$15,000
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN$12,000
ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN INVESTMENT MANAGERS (AAAIM)$11,000
THE ASIA FOUNDATION$10,000
US JAPAN COUNCIL$10,000
U-GO INITIATIVE$5,000
UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY SOUTHERN TERRITORY EMERGENCY DISASTER SERVICES$5,000
NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY INC$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%In Kind Boxes: $100 → 8%INVEST FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%In Kind Boxes: $100 → 8%THE U-GO INITIATIVE: $10k → 11%U-GO INITIATIVE: $5k → 11%BUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK: $100 → 9%Silk Road Foundation Inc: $100 → 20%NEW FUTURES: $100 → 14%NEW FUTURES: $100 → 14%Raphael House: $100 → 10%Asian American Federation: $5k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $28k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $25k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $25k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $10k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $10k → 17%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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
WV
VA
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 39 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
58

Total granted

$562k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+6%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BI
    BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $104k · revenue +78%
  • AU
    ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +670%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $74k · revenue +23%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -54%
  • W
    WORLDREADERORG
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -78%
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
United States Fund for Unicef

The organization's mission is to relentlessly pursue a better world for every child. unicef usa advances the global mission of unicef by rallying the american public to support the world's most vulnerable children. through fundraising,…

International
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
11
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
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is In Kind Boxes. 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

76 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. 76 of the 101 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
53/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $74,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEAsian American Invest Managers AAAIM: $72,000 · OtherAsian American Invest Managers AAAIMBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $46,280 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK C…NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $10,000 · Other+64 more: $46,930 · Other+64 moreBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $104,100 · InternationalBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INCFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDAT…THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATIONUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $10,000 · InternationalUS- JAPAN COUNCILWORLDREADERORG: $10,000 · InternationalWORLDREADERORG+6 more: $4,200 · InternationalHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $122,600 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE …U-GO INITIATIVE: $15,000 · Human ServicesU-GO INITIATIVEInvest for Kids Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services+7 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $86,000 · EducationASIAN UNIVERSIT…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+4 more: $800 · EducationRIVERKEEPER INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 · Civil RightsAssociation of Asian American Investment Managers: $11,000 · Community Improvement
Other$249,210International$175,300Human Services$148,800Education$96,800Environment$35,000Civil Rights$12,000Community Improvement$11,000

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 budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $122,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC: $104,100 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $86,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $74,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $46,280 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetU-GO INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDREADERORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL FOR KIDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMMY'S HOPE INC: $500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT & TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF PS 29 INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCARE VIETNAM INC: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN K9 RESCUE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY USA FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIn Kind Boxes: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Coast Boxer Rescue: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $100 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…First Eagle Investmen…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Rockefeller Found…Td Charitable Foundat…Select Equity Group F…The Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Express Foun…Globalgiving Foundati…The New York Communit…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · First Eagle Investments Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • York Street Project: 32% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
17report 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.
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How do I get to Indus Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Indus Charitable Foundation Inc 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 101 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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