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Rajam Family Foundation at a glance

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Rajam Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

International$2.4MArts & Culture$1.0MEducation$807kAnimals$800kPhilanthropy$240kScience & Tech$20k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $136k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$40,218
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$300,000
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$250,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS MAJOR$73,741
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN$62,472
UNITEK COLLEGE STUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATIO$40,218
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$20,452
DUKE UNIVERSITY$17,245
UCLA FOUNDATION$14,019
PURUDE UNIVERSITY GLOBAL INC$4,426
CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL$2,539
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 (FY21–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
NC
LA
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 11 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-41%

Still filing today

36%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SB
    SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +20%
  • TD
    THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $750k · revenue +183%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $51k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -10% · 57% of their budget
  • DF
    DOCTORS FOR YOU - USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -100%
  • DC
    DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -73%
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
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
2
New York University

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.

Education
3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Legacy Funds of Holy Names University; the most unlike its peers is Deserving Causes India Foundation. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 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)
16/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $2,135,000 · InternationalSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INCDOCTORS FOR YOU - USA INC: $140,000 · InternationalDOCTORS FOR YOU - USA INCDESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION: $140,000 · InternationalDESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATIONTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUN…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $750,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRI…HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $50,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SI…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Nova Southeastern University Inc: $51,186 · EducationNova Sout…THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $23,545 · EducationTHE LEGAC…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,452 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,245 · Education+2 more: $19,319 · EducationCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS MAJOR: $143,741 · OtherPARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $62,472 · OtherUNITEK COLLEGE STUDENT NURSES ASSOCIATIO: $59,677 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,764 · OtherCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $13,300 · OtherCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL: $13,034 · Other+3 more: $25,848 · OtherUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $140,000 · PhilanthropyGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWALL STREET WIZARDS ACADEMY: $50,000 · Youth Development
International$2,415,000Arts & Culture$1,000,000Animals$800,000Education$431,747Other$345,836Philanthropy$140,000Human Services$100,000Youth Development$50,000

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 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS FOR YOU - USA INC: $140,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,452 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $17,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $14,019 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
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rajam Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rajam Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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