Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $1.9M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $3.0M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $833k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $621k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $610k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $309k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $140k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Delaware | $2,100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Mary Medical Center | $1,388,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coalition for Radical Life Extension | $470,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Doylestown Health Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Betterhumans Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 54% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Maximum Life Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 60% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation
- How much does Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation give?
- Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $2,073,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (38%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Delaware ($2.1M), St Mary Medical Center ($1.4M), Coalition for Radical Life Extension ($470k).
- Does Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation based?
- Rama and Shashi Marda Foundation is based in PA.
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