· Private foundation
Kakani Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY | $53,278 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER | $4,034 |
| AAPIQLI | $2,500 |
| MOUNT SINAI SOUTH NASSAU | $1,975 |
| MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| LONG ISLAND INDO AMERICAN LIONS | $1,215 |
| WNYC | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS | $742 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| RAJMAAI | $500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICA | $300 |
| THE HINDU TEMPLE | $217 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MIMPMAANA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +97%
- MMMERCY MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +19%
- OFOM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IAINDO AMERICAN LIONS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UIUNIVERSITY IN DENVERone grant, 2019 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To update and educate members of the medical profession on current activities and new products.
To facilitate and enable indian american physicians to excel in patient care, teaching and research
The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…
The National Ayurvedic Medical Association represents the Ayurvedic profession in the United States of America. Our mission is to preserve, protect, promote and advance the consciousness-based philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of…
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
Our mission as per the by-laws : a) the board adopts a strategic plan that includes goals which will lead to acquiring accreditation recognized by us department of education and maintaining it. this includes getting an accreditation from…
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,…
Maintened a website to document and present our research, popular vedic popularvedicscience.com. added 200 new articles and the website is now a top ranking site
We are the alumni of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, who live and/or work in North America, which includes the USA, Canada and Mexico. Our goal is to garner the best and the brightest minds in Science and Technology from…
We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.
Layyasaaram institute of indian arts was established with three primary goals. perform: conduct indidan classical music and dance performances of local and visiting atistis in the twin cities and rochester metro areas. educate: conduct…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hindu American Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Vegan Vision Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MPMAANA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHESHWARY MAHASABHA OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds OM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arya Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kakani Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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