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Lotus Petal USA

Raise funds to help provide education and healthcare to children of low-income families.

$704k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
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67% of Lotus Petal USA’s FY2024 grant dollars went to India Development And Relief Fund Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2024
$18k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$56k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

International$32kPhilanthropy$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
India Philanthropy Alliance Association$6,00011%

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Find your warmest path to Lotus Petal USA 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.

About Lotus Petal USA

How much does Lotus Petal USA give?
Lotus Petal USA reported 2 itemized grants totaling $18,000, out of $704,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Lotus Petal USA fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (84%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are Lotus Petal USA's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: India Philanthropy Alliance Association ($6k).
Where is Lotus Petal USA based?
Lotus Petal USA is based in CA.

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 2 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $663k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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