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Peri & Geetha Alagappan Foundation at a glance

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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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$6kArts & Culture$2kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kScience & Tech$1kHealth$1kFood & Nutrition$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dallas Nagarathars$1,500
Sri Meenakshi Temple Society$1,000
Houston Tamil Studies Chair$1,000
Kural Koodal Semmozhi Foundation$500
Individual grant recipient$300
Anjali Center for Performing Arts$250
Houston Food Bank$200
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IIT Madras Foundation: $1k → 8%Galveston County Food Bank: $100 → 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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 3 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$5k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+41%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther
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

  • SM
    SRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
  • TN
    TAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue -35%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    3× · 2023–2025 · $500 · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • BK
    BHARATHI KALAI MANRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +41%
  • SC
    SEVA CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +127%
  • NS
    NAGARATHAR SANGAM OF NORTH AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +135%
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
Telugu Association of St Louis

Provide events celebrating teluga tradit

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2
Chicago Telugu Association

Preserving and propagating Telugu Culture and Language.

Human Services
3
Talmudic Commentaries Foundation
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4
Prasaad
Religion
5
Telangana Peoples Association of Dallas

The nbsp;purpose nbsp;of nbsp;telangana nbsp;peoples nbsp;associatiom nbsp;of nbsp;dallas nbsp;(tpad) nbsp;is nbsp;to nbsp;conduct nbsp;telengana nbsp;( nbsp;a nbsp;region nbsp;in nbsp;india) nbsp;festivals nbsp;and nbsp;events nbsp;like…

Arts & Culture
6
Socaltamil Org

Religious and culture awareness

Religion
7
Hindu Center of Atlanta Inc

To serve atlanta area hindu community to celebrate hindu culture

Religion
8
Kala Seva Arts & Cultural Society Inc

Arts and culture in society

Arts & Culture
9
Marathi Mandal of Northeast Ohio

Serving culture, social, educational

Religion
10
San Diego Tamil Palli

Tamil Academy

Education
11
New York Albany Tamil Sangam
Arts & Culture
12
Tennessee Tamizh Sangam

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tamil Nadu Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY: $3,050 · OtherSRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETYBHARATHI KALAI MANRAM: $1,000 · OtherBHARATHI KALAI MANRAMThe Houston Food Bank: $500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankIndividual grant recipient: $300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAnjali Center for Performing Arts: $250 · OtherTAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · PhilanthropyTAMIL NADU FOUNDATI…NAGARATHAR SANGAM OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNAGARATHAR SANGAM O…HOUSTON TAMIL STUDIES CHAIR INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON TAMIL STUD…Kural Koodal Semmozhi Foundation Inc: $500 · Arts & CultureKural Koodal Semmo…VARASIDDHI: $500 · Arts & CultureVARASIDDHICLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $100 · Arts & CultureDALLAS NAGARATHARS: $1,500 · ReligionDALLAS NAGARA…IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesIIT MADRA…GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $100 · Human ServicesGALVESTON…SEVA CLINIC: $1,000 · Health
Other$5,100Philanthropy$2,250Arts & Culture$2,100Religion$1,500Human Services$1,100Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVA CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNAGARATHAR SANGAM OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON TAMIL STUDIES CHAIR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIIT MADRAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKural Koodal Semmozhi Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVARASIDDHI: $500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $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.

Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peri & Geetha Alagappan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peri & Geetha Alagappan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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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