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Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation at a glance

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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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$92kInternational$47kReligion$34kArts & Culture$6kCommunity Improvement$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$500Civil Rights$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$281k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 8%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $750 → 8%SAHELI INC: $500 → 8%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +69% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$171k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+69%

Still filing today

92%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
PhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FE
    FLARE EDUCATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +93%
  • DF
    DESAI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +226%
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • TF
    TIE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • LE
    LITTLETON EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -51%
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
The Desai Foundation
Education
2
Friends of Teach for India Inc

Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.

Education
3
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Maharashtra Foundation Inc

Funding charitable projects in india and the usa.

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5
Avasara Foundation Fka the Leadership Foundation of India

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…

Education
6
Foundation for Small Charities India Inc
Philanthropy
7
India Development and Relief Fund Inc

Provide social development and relief assistance to underprivileged people primarily in india but also in nepal, sri lanka and the usa

International
8
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
9
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
10
India Foundation

Healthcare and education for the needy

Human Services
11
Sister India Ltd

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…

International
12
Foundation for Excellence Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa); 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.
05the 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 25 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLARE EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · EducationFLARE EDUCATION INCBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCCONCORD ACADEMY: $11,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMYNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATIONDESAI FOUNDATION: $36,000 · PhilanthropyDESAI FOUNDATION+3 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA CONGREGATION OF NEW ENGLAND: $33,500 · OtherCHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA CO…EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $3,500 · OtherEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATIO…+6 more: $4,001 · Other+6 moreAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,350 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK INC: $500 · Food & NutritionNEW ENGLAND MALAYALEE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureINDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER: $2,000 · Arts & CultureArtspace Inc: $250 · Arts & CultureTIE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Community ImprovementAGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,750 · Human ServicesSAHELI INC: $500 · Human Services
Education$87,000Philanthropy$38,000Other$41,001Food & Nutrition$7,850Arts & Culture$4,750Community Improvement$4,500Human Services$4,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLARE EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTIE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND MALAYALEE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD LINK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITTLETON COMMUNITY FARM: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArtspace Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Analog Devices Founda…Verizon FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
Boston Foundation IncMA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 61%
  • Saheli Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Madavi and Gaugarin Oliver Foundation 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.

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 25 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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