· Private foundation
Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver 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.
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 $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESAI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA CONGREGATION OF NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| BROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ARTSPACE INC | $250 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- FEFLARE EDUCATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +93%
- DFDESAI FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +226%
- CACONCORD ACADEMY4× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TFTIE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +69%
- LELITTLETON EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -51%
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.
Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.
Funding charitable projects in india and the usa.
Form 990 - organization's mission we are a non-profit organization whose mission is to invest in and empower the next generation of women leaders in india. we primarily carry out our mission by supporting the students from india…
Provide social development and relief assistance to underprivileged people primarily in india but also in nepal, sri lanka and the usa
Public education
Healthcare and education for the needy
Sister India provides a holistic program, protecting and uplifting women and girls, ending trafficking, child marriages and child labor, lifting families from poverty, and ensuring girls can go to school instead. We research effective…
To bring about a transformation in the lives of brilliant but financially needy students in india.the mission is accomplished by providing financial assistance to enable students to continue and complete their higher professional education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) and the most unlike its peers is Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 FLARE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds TIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND MALAYALEE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds AIMS INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FREELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAHELI INC ↗
- Who funds Artspace Inc ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Analog Devices Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Saheli Inc — 61% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% 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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