· Private foundation
Kamla Bafna Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WORLD WILDLIFFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARATHI MANDAL OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANKS | $10,000 |
| ZENWORKS YOGA | $5,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITY UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $5,000 |
| LUVIN ARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($124k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +16%
- LALuvin Arms6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RMRAJASTAN MEDICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $93k
- MMMANAV MANDIR MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $13k
- CMCHINMAYA MISSION PTTSBURGone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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.…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 RESOURCE CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kamla Bafna Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kamla Bafna Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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