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Meena Duggirala Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY17–21, $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. Its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +153% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifemoves; 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 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. 14 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Bright Funds Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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 Meena Duggirala Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meena Duggirala Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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