· Private foundation
Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR BISWAS | $15,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MATERNAL HELP HOPE FUND | $10,000 |
| FOCUS HOPE | $7,500 |
| ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| KARUNA AMERICA | $7,500 |
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA | $7,500 |
| SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT WOMEN | $6,000 |
| WATERAID AMERICA | $5,000 |
| ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HEART AND HOME COLLABORATIVE | $4,200 |
| ASTI AMERICAN SERVICE TO INDIA | $3,000 |
| DREAMS FOR CHANGE | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
The Fistula Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +74%- KAKARUNA AMERICA7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +144%
Accounting Aid Society7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- BCBUILDING COMMUNITY VALUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +128%
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.
To leverage the power of social capital to promote health care, education and sustainable development, striving to bring positive change in the quality of life in people in underserved communities. With particular focus on women and their…
Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…
Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…
SHRI fights alongside communities to end open defecation as a key step in an ongoing struggle for health equity and soical and economic justice.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Our mission is to bridge the world of business and the world of people in extreme poverty, and to support vulnerable communities with health, education and other essential services
Our mission is to catalyze socio-econimic change in India through the education of underpriviledged children.
Communities face the same problems all across the world sickness, poverty, social discrimination, environmental injustice, the list goes on.Though incredible organizations have been founded to help solve these issues over decades and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share and Care Foundation for India and the most unlike its peers is Building Community Value. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 OUR BISWAS ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds KARUNA AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Maternal Help Hope Fund ↗
- Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds HEART AND HOME COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THREADS FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds DESERVING CAUSES INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING COMMUNITY VALUE ↗
- Who funds DALIT SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ram and Lakshmi Sundaram 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.
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.