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Pani Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pani Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$570k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
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 2025.

Human Services$907kHealth$671kEducation$442kInternational$140kEnvironment$110kReligion$80kCivil Rights$55k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILD FDN AASRAA TRUST$140,000
ST JUDES CHILDCARE INDIA$80,000
SAVE THE CHILD FDN PRATHAM BOOKS$80,000
SMILE TRAIN$80,000
AKSHAYA PATRA$40,000
THE GOONJ FOUNDATION$40,000
FRIENDS OF ARAVIND$40,000
THE MV FOUNDATION$30,000
CURE LITTLE FEET CLUB$30,000
EL SHADDAI HEART OF HOPE$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE: $40k → 11%El Shaddai Child Rescue: $20k → 14%INDIAN FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $20k → 8%AKSHAYA PATRA: $40k → 10%THE GOONJ FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%FRIENDS OF ARAVIND: $40k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FDN AASRAA TRUST: $140k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $80k → 16%CURE LITTLE FEET CLUB: $30k → 14%Heart of Hope &El Shaddai Charitable Tr: $30k → 9%SIGHTLIFE: $70k → 9%ST JUDE INDIA CHILD CARE CENTER: $40k → 11%El Shaddai Child Rescue: $20k → 14%THE MV FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%THE GOONJ FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%SMILE TRAIN: $80k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FDN PRATHAM BOOKS: $80k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $65k → 16%SIGHTLIFE: $41k → 9%ST JUDES CHILDCARE INDIA: $80k → 11%El Shaddai Child Rescue: $20k → 14%THE GOOJI FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE SMILE TRAIN: $60k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $56k → 16%SIGHTLIFE: $20k → 9%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE: $65k → 11%THE GOOJI FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE SMILE TRAIN: $55k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $55k → 16%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $65k → 11%THE SMILE TRAIN: $50k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $55k → 16%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $60k → 11%THE SMILE TRAIN: $50k → 17%SAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $50k → 16%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE: $50k → 11%THE SMILE TRAIN: $50k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $45k → 16%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $50k → 11%PRATHAM USA: $35k → 16%ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $50k → 11%THE SMILE TRAIN: $50k → 17%THE SMILE TRAIN: $40k → 17%THE SMILE TRAIN: $35k → 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

WA
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+68%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +19%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $442k · revenue +20%
  • SJ
    ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +0% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE INDIA CHILD CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • HO
    Heart of Hope &El Shaddai Charitable Tr
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • AI
    AFEF INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +117%
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
Farmers for Forests Inc

The mission of Farmers for Forests (F4F) is to restore and protect green cover in India in close partnership with farmers and indigenous communities. All the on-ground work is enabled by AI and multi-spectral drone technology and satellite…

Human Services
2
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
4
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Desai Foundation
Education
6
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
7
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

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8
Friends of Teach for India Inc

Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.

Education
9
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
11
Give Foundation Inc

To increase overall charitable giving by creating a vibrant giving exchange

Human Services
12
Ananta Giving Foundation

To provide support for charitable and educational organizations and initiatives in the united states and abroad, including but not limited to organizations and initiatives focused on providing and facilitating access to high quality…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American India Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Indians for Collective Action. 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE TRAIN INC: $470,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCSAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATION: $170,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILD FOUNDATIONST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE: $155,000 · OtherST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARESAVE THE CHILD FDN AASRAA TRUST: $140,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILD FDN AASRAA TRUSTEl Shaddai Child Rescue: $90,500 · OtherEl Shaddai Child RescueSAVE THE CHILD FDN PRATHAM BOOKS: $80,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILD FDN PRATHAM BOOKSST JUDES CHILDCARE INDIA: $80,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDCARE INDIA+7 more: $171,000 · Other+7 morePRATHAM USA: $441,500 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USAST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $225,000 · InternationalST JUDE INDI…MV FOUNDATION: $30,000 · InternationalMV FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $4,500 · InternationalSIGHTLIFE: $131,000 · Community ImprovementSIGHTLIFEGOONJ FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Community ImprovementGOONJ FOUND…INDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $35,000 · Civil RightsAFEF INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,356,500Philanthropy$441,500International$259,500Community Improvement$241,000Civil Rights$55,000Health$40,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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 budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $470,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $441,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA: $225,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetSIGHTLIFE: $131,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOONJ FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAFEF INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 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.

  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA ↗
  • Who funds SIGHTLIFE ↗
  • Who funds GOONJ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFEF INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pani Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pani Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 Pani Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pani 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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