· Private foundation
Kamla Bafna Charitable 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 $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKSHAYPATRA | $61,000 |
| EKAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FEDERATION OF INDIA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIO | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANKS | $10,000 |
| MARATHI MANDAL OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $10,000 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $5,000 |
| LUVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| ZENWORKS YOGA | $5,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITY UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| JAIN SOCIETY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $4,502 |
| MOMS 4 MOMS | $2,000 |
| CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $1,000 |
| MORELAND HILLS POLICE & EMPLOYEES FND | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($124k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($124k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- NCNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +16%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
- LALuvin Arms6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- RMRAJASTAN MEDICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $93k
- MMMANAV MANDIR MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $13k
- UBUNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +293%
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.
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
Cleveland public library foundation's mission is to raise philanthropic and advocacy support for the cleveland public library.
To be a national model for how a presenting organization serves its community, leveraging the worlds best modern and contemporary dance to inspire and educate audiences, local dancers, and community members.
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
The organizations mission is to improve the lives of disenfranchised workersparticularly low-income, minority, and female workers who face systemic barriers to opportunitythrough public interest research and field-based interventions. our…
Promotes international understanding through professional development and cross-cultural exchange. cipusa is an international exchange organization based in cleveland, ohio with a network of affiliate offices nationwide and an alumni…
The clc is organized and operated for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. more specifically, it is dedicated to furthering efforts in support of social justice and environmental sustainability, while promoting collaborations…
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Marathi Mandal of Northeast Ohio. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 57 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 FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ZENWORKS YOGA ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHI MANDAL OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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: The George Gund Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kamla Bafna Charitable 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
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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