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Ninna & Bharat Patel Family Foundation at a glance

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Ninna & Bharat Patel 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.

$25k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$920kHealth$69kEducation$64kArts & Culture$12kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kReligion$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE$20,000
SHARING HANDS FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANEKANT COMMUNTY CENTER: $2k → 14%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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 7 repeat orgs$967k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$108k
$962k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+70%

Still filing today

43%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • SV
    Smart Village Movement Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +555%
  • IF
    INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOFA CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $915k
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -71%
  • CM
    CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
India Association of Los Angeles

Promote community cultural integration

Human Services
2
Shraman Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Indians for Collective Action

ICA's mission is to support sustainable development in India by partnering with dedicated non-government organizations (NGO's) and individuals.

Civil Rights
4
Deserving Causes India Foundation

Disaster relief, Education, Health care

International
5
Indo- American Foundation Inc
—
6
Indo-Us Foundation

The foundation provides medical grants and educational assistance to needy groups and organizations.

Human Services
7
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Rupani Foundation

Support health , education & economic development of underpriviledged people

Philanthropy
9
Swami Dayanand Scholarships Foundation

Helping deserving students by giving the scholarships.

Education
10
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
11
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
12
Miss Frans Helping Hands of Indian
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Rural Assistance to India; the most unlike its peers is Smart Village Movement 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOFA CHARITABLE FUND: $914,648 · OtherBOFA CHARITABLE FUNDASSN OF LA PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORI: $35,000 · Other+17 more: $52,600 · OtherSmart Village Movement Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN: $10,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 · HealthHEART TO HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthINDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES: $4,900 · Arts & CultureUMANOORG: $1,000 · Arts & CultureDAKSHINI BENGALI ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $500 · Arts & CultureANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesINDIA FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · International
Other$1,002,248Education$42,600Health$20,000Arts & Culture$6,400Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$2,000International$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSmart Village Movement Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES: $4,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLESTONNAC FREE CLINIC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR RURAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIA: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIA FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE IN LIFE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetUMANOORG: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF REED INC: $100 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.

Tarsadia FoundationCalifornia Community …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tarsadia FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tarsadia Foundation · California Community Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ninna & Bharat Patel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ninna & Bharat Patel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Ninna & Bharat Patel 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.

    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 31 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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