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Rajam Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$40,218
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Rajam Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$1.5M25%
FY202310$671k40%
FY20229$731k89%
FY20217$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$2.4MArts & Culture$1.0MEducation$807kAnimals$800kPhilanthropy$240kScience & Tech$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
NC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc$2,135,000313%
The Troy Andrews Foundation$1,000,000157%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$750,00026%
Doctors for You - USA Inc$140,000115%
Deserving Causes India Foundation$140,000118%
Give Foundation Inc$100,00010%
Nova Southeastern University Inc$51,18620%
Wall Street Wizards Academy$50,000184%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$50,00020%
Kent State University$27,7642n/a
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All grantees of Rajam Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc$2,135,000313%
The Troy Andrews Foundation$1,000,000157%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$750,00026%
Doctors for You - USA Inc$140,000115%
Deserving Causes India Foundation$140,000118%
Give Foundation Inc$100,00010%
Nova Southeastern University Inc$51,18620%
Wall Street Wizards Academy$50,000184%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$50,00020%
Kent State University$27,7642n/a
The Legacy Funds of Holy Names University$23,54510%
Duke University$17,24510%
California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated$13,30011%
Purdue University Global Inc$9,2232n/a
Otter Student Union at Csu Monterey Bay$5,30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($296k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Rajam Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc: $2,135,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetThe Troy Andrews Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetDoctors for You - USA Inc: $140,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDeserving Causes India Foundation: $140,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGive Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $51,186 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWall Street Wizards Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Legacy Funds of Holy Names University: $23,545 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $17,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $13,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOtter Student Union at Csu Monterey Bay: $5,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Rajam Family Foundation

How much does Rajam Family Foundation give?
Rajam Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,785,112 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Rajam Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (46%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (15%).
Who are Rajam Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc ($2.1M), The Troy Andrews Foundation ($1.0M), The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc ($750k).
Does Rajam Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rajam Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rajam Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Rajam Family Foundation based?
Rajam Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 25 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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