· Private foundation
Puri 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Puri Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic | $155,960 |
| Village of Stillman Valley | $15,960 |
| Womanspace | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $201 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 32% of Puri Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $583k · revenue +16%
- RFRAAH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $97k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- CFCITY FIRST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $48k
- WHWORLD HINDU FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
Vision statement: enhance economic vitality in the rockford region by providing access to post-secondary education for all rockford public school graduates. - mission statement: remove financial barriers by offering full-tuition…
To support housing and community development ventures
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.
Rockford sharefest exists to identify, develop and lead projects that empower and release volunteers and donors to use their god-given gifts, abilities and resources to make an impact for the common good. rockford sharefest is bringing…
Organization to build a permanent endowment for the benefit of the rockford symphony orchestra and its programs.
Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
The rockford education foundation (ref) was established in 1991 to provide resources for increased educational opportunities for people of all ages in the rockford community. the ref is an independent, non-profit corporation, governed by a…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Guy Reno Family Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Puri Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Puri Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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