· Private foundation
Peri & Geetha Alagappan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dallas Nagarathars | $1,500 |
| Houston Tamil Studies Chair | $1,000 |
| Sri Meenakshi Temple Society | $1,000 |
| Kural Koodal Semmozhi Foundation | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Anjali Center for Performing Arts | $250 |
| Houston Food Bank | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SMSRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
- TNTAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue -35%
The Houston Food Bank3× · 2023–2025 · $500 · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BKBHARATHI KALAI MANRAMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +41%
- SCSEVA CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +127%
- NSNAGARATHAR SANGAM OF NORTH AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +135%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide events celebrating teluga tradit
Preserving and propagating Telugu Culture and Language.
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Religious and culture awareness
To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture
Arts and culture in society
Serving culture, social, educational
Tamil Academy
Tennessee Tamizh Sangam is a member based, non-profit, cultural, and charitable organization, incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee, USA, and focused on promotion and preservation of Tamil culture, language and heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tamil Nadu Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Varasiddhi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DALLAS NAGARATHARS ↗
- Who funds TAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BHARATHI KALAI MANRAM ↗
- Who funds SEVA CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TAMIL STUDIES CHAIR INC ↗
- Who funds NAGARATHAR SANGAM OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds VARASIDDHI ↗
- Who funds Kural Koodal Semmozhi Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Peri & Geetha Alagappan Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.