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Pratima N Shah Family Foundation at a glance

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Pratima N Shah 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.

$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$397kReligion$361kYouth Development$152kScience & Tech$63kCommunity Improvement$50kArts & Culture$50kPublic Benefit$41kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
BAPS ENDOWMENT INC$16,001
MA CENTER CHICAGO$10,000
NAVY PIER$10,000
VIVEKANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OFCHICAGO$1,251
CATHOLIC EXTENSION SOCIETY$1,000
ANEWERA$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIT: $20k → 8%EDUCATION & HEALTH USA INT INC: $95k → 11%BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON: $50k → 17%WILSON CENTER: $35k → 14%BAPS: $3k → 7%VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHI: $120k → 7%MA CENTER CHICAGO: $10k → 8%ANEWERA: $1k → 8%ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRES LIBRARY FDN: $10k → 11%CITY OF CHICAGO: $41k → 14%BAPS ENDOWMENT INC: $31k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH: $20k → 8%WILSON CENTER: $25k → 14%BAPS: $1k → 7%VIVEKANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OFCHICAGO: $106k → 7%ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRES LIBRARY FDN: $5k → 11%YOUTH GUIDANCE: $2k → 14%BAPS ENDOWMENT INC: $30k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF: $20k → 8%VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHIC: $100k → 7%METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $5k → 14%BAPS ENDOWMENT INC: $16k → 11%VIVEKANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OFCHICAGO: $1k → 7%NAVY PIER: $10k → 14%NAVY PIER: $10k → 14%NAVY PIER: $10k → 14%NAVY PIER: $10k → 14%NAVY PIER: $10k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $4k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY CHICAG: $3k → 14%CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CHICAGO CARES: $5k → 14%CHICAGO CARES: $5k → 14%MAPSCORPS: $25k → 14%AKHLAKUL HASANA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%LIFT USA: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC EXTENSION: $15k → 14%WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $25k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $15k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $15k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $15k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $15k → 14%WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $10k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $10k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER: $5k → 14%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $5k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY: $3k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY: $3k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 11 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$575k
$441k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+30%

Still filing today

45%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VV
    VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO
    3× · 2018–2024 · $227k
  • BE
    BAPS ENDOWMENT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $77k
  • AS
    AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • VV
    VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHIC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • EH
    EDUCATION & HEALTH USA INT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $95k
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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9
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
10
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
11
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
12
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lift Usa. 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

13 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. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $227,251 · OtherVIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHICAGOVIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHIC: $100,000 · OtherVIVEKANANDA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF CHICCHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherCHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITYEDUCATION & HEALTH USA INT INC: $95,000 · OtherEDUCATION & HEALTH USA INT INCBAPS ENDOWMENT INC: $77,001 · OtherBAPS ENDOWMENT INCWILSON CENTER: $60,000 · OtherWILSON CENTERBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON: $50,000 · OtherBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF CHICAGO: $41,140 · Other+10 more: $105,102 · Other+10 moreAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $75,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOO…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000 · EducationMassachuset…LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationLINCOLN PRE…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationNAVY PIER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $35,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CARES INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $5,000 · Community ImprovementLIFT USA: $20,000 · ReligionENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $5,000 · EnvironmentLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $4,000 · HealthFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$905,494Education$112,000Arts & Culture$50,000Community Improvement$50,000Religion$20,000Environment$5,000Health$4,000Food & Nutrition$250

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 budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY PIER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAPSCORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT USA: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $250 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 AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds MAPSCORPS ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds LIFT USA ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA 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.

Lavin Family Foundati…Grand Victoria Founda…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Lavin Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lavin Family Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Pratima N Shah Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pratima N Shah Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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