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Namaste Foundation Inc

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.

$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$251k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$251kArts & Culture$179kHealth$124kEducation$100kReligion$44kSocial Science$25kEnvironment$17kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $12k
  • $250k+1 grant · $251k
$515
Median grant
9
States reached
$54
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST$250,899
NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER$2,500
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$1,046
HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$1,030
CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE$1,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$1,000
RARE$528
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$527
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$515
SIERRA CLUB$515
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$510
THE SMITHSONIAN$500
THE HUBB ARTS & TRAUMA CENTER$412
GREEN AMERICA$350
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 (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEADOWLANDS YMCA: $588 → 7%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST: $628 → 16%OUR PLACE IN NY INC: $4k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $2k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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 34% of Namaste Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Namaste Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 33% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$424k · 37 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
39

Total granted

$424k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+43%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +139%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +36%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +193%
  • HI
    HIMALAYAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOGA SCI & PHIL OF THE USA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • AS
    ALL STARS PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +44%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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8
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

53 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. 53 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST: $250,899 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $155,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUMUniversity of Michigan: $80,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherHIMALAYAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOGA SCI & PHIL OF THE USA: $25,000 · Other+42 more: $63,709 · Other+42 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $44,000 · EducationGEORGETOW…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $5,650 · EducationUNIVERSIT…+4 more: $3,300 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation: $10,815 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $2,875 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,000 · Health+8 more: $3,142 · HealthTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $12,230 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC: $6,250 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,538 · Arts & CultureCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $15,524 · Food & NutritionNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $4,250 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $3,000 · EnvironmentRARE: $2,115 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,080 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,066 · EnvironmentOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $1,545 · Environment
Other$604,608Education$67,950Health$29,832Social Science$25,000Arts & Culture$22,018Food & Nutrition$15,524Environment$15,056

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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $80,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $15,524 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $12,230 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $10,815 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $5,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $2,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARE: $2,115 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,066 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,015 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWatchung Rescue Squad Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,699 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $1,545 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGREEN AMERICA: $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $657 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $638 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $628 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWLANDS AREA YMCA: $588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $518 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $509 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $359 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $261 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The Provident Bank Fo…Columbia Bank Foundat…Investors Foundation …Mutual of America Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Community Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Verizon FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundNational Philanthropi…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
  • Federation for Children Wspecial Needs: 10% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report 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, 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 Namaste Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Namaste Foundation Inc 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 81 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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