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Kamath Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$345kCommunity Improvement$146kHealth$65kEducation$30kInternational$26kScience & Tech$14kHuman Services$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REALIZE IMPACT$76,000
REALIZE IMPACT$50,000
FFWD$35,000
INTELEHEALTH INC$10,000
FFWD$10,000
SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND$10,000
TONIIC INSTITUTE$8,500
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$5,000
FUTURE BUILDERS FOUNDATION$1,000
FOOTHILL-DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION$1,000
NEYTHRI INC$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10k → 9%MONTEREY BAY HORSEMANSHIP & THERAPEUTIC CENTER: $5k → 13%REALIZE IMPACT: $76k → 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $50k → 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%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
ID
NY
MA
OR
CA
MO
MD
AZ
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$407k · 6 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$407k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • LG
    Legacy Global Programs
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • F
    FFWD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +236%
  • II
    INTELEHEALTH INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +916%

Funded once

  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IB
    IIT Bombay Heritage Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +110%
  • KC
    KONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +63%
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
The Desai Foundation
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
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
4
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
5
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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6
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
7
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
8
International Foundation for Social Impact Inc

To promote education in the field of medical, engineering, management, computer software, hardware and information technology by establishing school, college, institution and education and research centre for upliftment of society, with a…

Education
9
Mit Enterprise Forum Inc

We inform, connect, and coach technology entrepreneurs-enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into world-changing companies. We are a global network of local organizations, inspired by MIT, and open to the world.

—
10
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
11
Asia Initiatives

To leverage the power of social capital to promote health care, education and sustainable development, striving to bring positive change in the quality of life in people in underserved communities. With particular focus on women and their…

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toniic Institute; the most unlike its peers is Mosaic America. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Legacy Global Programs: $150,000 · PhilanthropyLegacy Global ProgramsFFWD: $120,000 · PhilanthropyFFWDSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $40,000 · PhilanthropySILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2TONIIC INSTITUTE: $29,743 · PhilanthropyTONIIC INSTITUTE+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyRealize Impact: $126,000 · Human ServicesRealize ImpactKONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10,001 · Human ServicesKONKANI CHARITABLE FUND I…GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesINTELEHEALTH INC: $53,500 · InternationalINTELEHEALTH INCNEYTHRI INC: $14,010 · InternationalNEYTHRI INCIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $14,001 · InternationalIIT Bombay Herit…ACUMEN FUND INC: $10,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $19,100 · EducationVJTI INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND: $20,000 · OtherEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIA: $1,000 · OtherFUTURE BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherIntermountain Vipassana Association: $10,000 · ReligionLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthMOSAIC AMERICA: $250 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$340,743Human Services$146,101International$93,511Education$29,100Other$23,000Religion$10,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegacy Global Programs: $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRealize Impact: $126,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFFWD: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTELEHEALTH INC: $53,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTONIIC INSTITUTE: $29,743 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $19,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEYTHRI INC: $14,010 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $14,001 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10,001 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIntermountain Vipassana Association: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVJTI INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEYOND CAPITAL FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC AMERICA: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincRadhika & Ambarish Ma…The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…American Endowment Fo…The Sobrato Family Fo…Tides FoundationBright Funds Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Radhika & Ambarish Malpani Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Kamath Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kamath Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kamath Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kamath Family Foundation 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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