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Mehta Family 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$58,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Mehta Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$76k60%
FY20235$35k40%
FY20226$89k33%
FY20213$20k67%
FY20195$55k80%
FY20185$107k60%
FY20179$71kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$190kEducation$185kInternational$175kReligion$66kEmployment$15kHuman Services$15kHealth$10kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Mehta Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ujenzi Charitable Trust$100,0002n/a
Jain Society of Greater Detroit Shah$60,000210%
Share and Care Foundation for India$58,50013%
University of Chicago$51,00020%
The Latin School of Chicago$50,00030%
Geetmala Foundation of Michigan Sheth$15,000340%
Our Neighborhood Academy$15,00029%
Mai Family Services Sashital$10,00015%
Commit-2-Change$5,00011%
Hope Chicago Inc$5,00010%
Abhi Shah Foundation$4,00023%
St Marys Church$1,0001n/a
The Chicago Academy of Sciences$1,00010%
Kiran Anjali Project$1,00010%
Lighthouse Center Inc$5001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20010%
Eastern Market Corporation$10010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mehta Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJain Society of Greater Detroit Shah: $60,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetShare and Care Foundation for India: $58,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $51,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Latin School of Chicago: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeetmala Foundation of Michigan Sheth: $15,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetOur Neighborhood Academy: $15,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetMai Family Services Sashital: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCommit-2-Change: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHope Chicago Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAbhi Shah Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Chicago Academy of Sciences: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiran Anjali Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Market Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Jaya Charitable FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jaya Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Mehta Family 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.

About Mehta Family Foundation

How much does Mehta Family Foundation give?
Mehta Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $75,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mehta Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (27%), Education (27%), International (25%).
Who are Mehta Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ujenzi Charitable Trust ($100k), Jain Society of Greater Detroit Shah ($60k), Share and Care Foundation for India ($59k).
Does Mehta Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mehta Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mehta Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jaya Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Mehta Family Foundation based?
Mehta Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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