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Kamdar Private 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$113kFood & Nutrition$66kHealth$43kInternational$31kArts & Culture$11kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$4kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION$10,000
AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION$10,000
AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION$10,000
PRATHAM USA$10,000
EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION$7,500
I EDUCATE$5,000
CAMP JOHN MARC$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,000
SEVA INTERNATIONAL$1,250
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,030
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CRY AMERICA$1,000
UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA$1,000
SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH SVC$500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $10k) 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%SEVA INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2k → 16%SEVA INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
TN
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 18 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$203k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+78%

Still filing today

50%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & 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

  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +151%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +17%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • MS
    MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • EG
    ETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
3
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
4
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
5
Indo-Us Foundation

The foundation provides medical grants and educational assistance to needy groups and organizations.

Human Services
6
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Intelehealth Inc

Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…

International
8
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
9
Ek Kadam Aur

Transforming lives of underprivileged children through education, technology, healthcare programs, and connection with a global network of qualified volunteers and mentors.

International
10
Aparnas Health Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Shraman Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is India Culture Center; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Liver Foundation West Bengal. 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

21 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. 21 of the 44 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)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EKAL VIDYALAYA: $19,375 · OtherEKAL VIDYALAYAEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION: $16,825 · OtherEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATIONThe Houston Food Bank: $11,811 · OtherThe Houston Food BankMAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherMAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION I…ETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUMCAMP JOHN MARC: $7,000 · OtherCAMP JOHN MARCALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · OtherINDIAN AMERICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $5,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5,000 · Other+20 more: $31,750 · Other+20 moreAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $54,500 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATI…+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPRATHAM USA: $36,850 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USANORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $15,000 · EducationNORTH HARR…iEDUCATE: $6,300 · EducationiEDUCATESankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc: $6,000 · EducationSankara Ne…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF LIVER FOUNDATION WEST BENGAL: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,030 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalCRY-CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU AMERICA INC: $1,000 · InternationalSewa International Inc: $10,750 · Human Services
Other$123,761Food & Nutrition$55,500Philanthropy$36,850Education$27,300Health$17,030International$11,000Human Services$10,750

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 budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $54,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $36,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $11,811 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSewa International Inc: $10,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetiEDUCATE: $6,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIVER FOUNDATION WEST BENGAL: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDO-AMERICAN CHARITY FOUNDATION HOUSTON: $3,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaya Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIA CULTURE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS 4000 FOR CANCER: $500 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.

  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds iEDUCATE ↗
  • Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LIVER FOUNDATION WEST BENGAL ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN SCHOOLS ALUMNI AND FRIENDS INSAF ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds INDO-AMERICAN CHARITY FOUNDATION HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORP ↗
  • Who funds Daya Inc ↗
  • Who funds INDIA CULTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRY-CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Federation of Jain Associations in North America ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…Mani Family FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …McKesson Foundation I…Verizon FoundationAbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mani Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Kamdar Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kamdar Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–50%
    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 44 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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