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Marigowda Nagaraju Md & Renuka Nagaraju Charitable Fam Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$238k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$1.0MHealth$141kHuman Services$15kCivil Rights$13kEducation$12kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$500Environment$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAGARAJU CHARITABLE TRUST$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY$5,000
INDO-AMERICAN FOUNDATION$2,500
INSTITUTE OF FLINT$600
MIU RUN FOR THE RIBBON PROSTATE$128
02The need
03

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 giving24% of grant dollars ($296k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 76% that went abroad ($950k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INDIA MOVEMENT: $200 → 12%INDO-AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $5k → 10%CHINMAYA MISSION: $26k → 18%KURUBARA BALAGA: $5k → 11%CLEAN WATER ACTION: $100 → 14%MIU RUN FOR THE RIBBON PROSTATE: $128 → 8%NAYONIKA EYE CARE CHARITABLE TRUST: $30k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 14%CHINMAYA MISSION: $26k → 16%HINDU SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 8%CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK: $5k → 8%INDO-AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNT: $10k → 8%FOWAI FORUM: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $10k → 16%CMNH PARTNER DANCE MARATHON: $500 → 8%DPTV DETROIT: $125 → 8%BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%GEAR UP TO LEAD: $3k → 16%CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK: $500 → 8%RUN FOR THE RIBBON: $320 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE OF FLINT: $5k → 16%MIU MENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE OF FLINT: $600 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE OF FLINT: $500 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE OF FLINT: $100 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%KASI TEMPLE: $25k → 16%BHARATIYA TEMPLE: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US76% of all-years giving ($950k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$950k · 5 grants

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +202% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$1.1M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+202%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +202%
  • IA
    INDO- AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +677% · 35% of their budget
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NE
    NAYONIKA EYE CARE CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

3
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
4
American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio

To advance middle class and working class values by promoting social and economic justice. we join together over 263,000 union members to make our voice heard in the policy and political arenas. the ohio afl-cio represents 1,787 local…

5
Michigan State Afl-Cio

Consistent with our trade union philosophy and tradition of advocating social and economic justice for all, we also see representing the unemployed, under-employed, and low income people as part of our mission. whether organized or yet to…

6
Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute

To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.

Employment
7
Communications Workers of America Local 1038

Labor Union

8
Committee of Interns and Residents

Organize and promote better working conditions and collectively bargain for membership (interns & residents) as well as potential members. to promote fair labor practices and advocate on behalf of members for the improvement of overall…

9
Acecmichigan

Association of consulting engineers

10
Michigan Federation for Children and Families

To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.

11
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 876

Labor union representing food and commercial workers, primarily in southeast michigan.

12
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Indo- American Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAGARAJU CHARITABLE TRUST — $950,000 · OtherNAGARAJU CHARITABLE TRUSTUniversity of Michigan — $95,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganCHINMAYA MISSION — $51,500 · Other+19 more — $123,573 · Other+19 moreGENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $10,000 · HealthCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalBIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN INC — $5,000 · EducationTROY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education
Other$1,220,073Health$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan — $95,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetINDO- AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetGENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGEARUP2LEAD — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTROY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Michigan
  • Who funds INDO- AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC
  • Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
  • Who funds BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN INC
  • Who funds GEARUP2LEAD
  • Who funds TROY ROTARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER ACTION

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.

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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 Marigowda Nagaraju Md & Renuka Nagaraju Charitable Fam 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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