· Private foundation
PJ and Mary Ann Desai Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $4,500 |
| ROSSMAN SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
| BAY HARBOR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| MIT | $2,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $500 |
| NINE PBS | $500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $250 |
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 (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +62%
- RSROSSMAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +32%
- MIMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School6× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +113%
- FAFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +74%
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Magic House and the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 34 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAY HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 PJ and Mary Ann Desai Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.