· Private foundation
Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $133k. It is dated, not current.
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 · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEWA INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SRINGERI VIDYA BHARATI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SRINGERI VIDYA BHARATI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $12,500 |
| SRI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| SANATANA DHARMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARSHA-VIDYA-PIHAM | $2,000 |
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF GREATER | $2,000 |
| DAYA | $1,000 |
| KANCHI KAMAKOTI SEVA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Houston Food Bank7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +107%- SDSANATANA DHARMA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $47k · revenue +6% · 52% of their budget
- CACLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $18k
- SRSUJANA RELIGIOUS & CHARITABLEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Foster teachings of hindu religion
To support all charitable and religious causes for the welfare of the poor and needy with no discrimination
The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…
The Mission of the Hindu Swayaamsevak Sangh USA, Inc. is: * to give primacy to Humanitarian and Spiritual values of life; * to create and promote a better understanding and more friendly relationship between races, nations and through…
Sadananda is a registered non-profit in the USA with the objective of supporting the needy and underprivileged people in India. We have partnered with Anandam, A Public Charitable Trust in Chennai, that has been supporting several…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 38 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.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SANATANA DHARMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORP ↗
- Who funds KANCHI KAMAKOTI SEVA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Mani Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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