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Meena Duggirala Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$443k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Science & Tech$638kPhilanthropy$488kHuman Services$20kHousing & Shelter$15kHealth$13kEducation$10kInternational$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $138k
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND (MD CHARITABLE FUND)$288,431
IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION$138,000
PRATHAM USA$10,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$2,000
VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH (VVM)$2,000
WOODSIDE PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION$1,000
CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL$720
KQED$500
INDIA CURRENTS FOUNDATION$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $138k → 8%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH (VVM): $2k → 7%IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%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.

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.

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$389k · 9 repeat orgs$804k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +153% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$389k
$503k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+153%
+46%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IM
    IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $338k · revenue +417%
  • L
    LIFEMOVES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +129%
  • IF
    ISHA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • UB
    UC BERKELEY
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abusegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +46%

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
Intelehealth Inc

Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…

International
2
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Ek Kadam Aur

Transforming lives of underprivileged children through education, technology, healthcare programs, and connection with a global network of qualified volunteers and mentors.

International
5
Mukti International

Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…

Crime & Legal
6
Prasaad
Religion
7
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
8
Minds Mental Illness & Neurological Disorders Foundation Inc

MINDS Foundation is committed to eliminating the stigma surrounding mental illness through education, training, and providing access to cost-effective, high-quality care.

Philanthropy
9
Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education
10
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
11
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
12
Pravara Vedika
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifemoves and the most unlike its peers is Narika. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC BERKELEY — $300,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYJP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND (MD CHARITABLE FUND) — $288,431 · OtherJP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND (MD CHARITABLE FUND)UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION+5 more — $26,716 · OtherIIT MADRAS FOUNDATION — $338,000 · Human ServicesIIT MADRAS FOUNDATION+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesISHA FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · EducationIndia Currents Foundation — $500 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationNarika — $10,250 · Community ImprovementPRATHAM USA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA — $3,725 · InternationalMOMENTUM FOR HEALTH — $1,000 · HealthCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $500 · HealthKQED INC — $900 · Arts & Culture
Other$815,147Human Services$340,000Education$11,750Community Improvement$10,250Philanthropy$10,000International$3,725Health$1,500Arts & Culture$900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIIT MADRAS FOUNDATION — $338,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNarika — $10,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA — $3,725 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM FOR HEALTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndia Currents Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ — $250 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Meena Duggirala 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Meena Duggirala Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Meena Duggirala 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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