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Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Animals$113kReligion$41kHuman Services$12kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$6kPublic Benefit$5kHealth$4kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASPCA$5,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,480
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT$2,000
THE HUMAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$2,000
PETA$2,000
OPERATION HOMEFRONT$1,000
PHYSICIAN COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE$1,000
TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY$1,000
SEEING EYE$1,000
PAWS OF HONOR$1,000
CARTER RESERVOIR MUSTANGS INC$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
LIFESAVERS WILD HORSE RESCUE$1,000
LITTLE LOGEARS MINIATURE DONKEY RES$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 7%SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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DC
TX
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$183k · 28 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

$183k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +37%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +112%
  • ME
    MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • WP
    WOUNDED PAW PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • BF
    BEST FRIEND ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • PO
    PAWS OF WAR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
3
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
4
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
K9 Global Rescue

K9 global rescue is a dedicated group of former combat veterans working with volunteers in cooperation with rescue organizations, government agencies and disaster relief agencies world wide for the humanity of dogs and all animals.

Animals
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Animal Angels
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9
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Airo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionVeteran Support ServicesChild and Family ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Land Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Christian Missionary Organi…Food Pantries & Assistance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $28,625 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUEL…PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $9,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INCNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $8,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGE…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $6,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCPAWS OF HONOR INC — $5,500 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INCPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE — $4,500 · AnimalsLION HABITAT RANCH INC — $4,000 · AnimalsLIFESAVERS INC — $3,500 · Animals+19 more — $22,500 · Animals+19 moreHINDU TEMPLE OF N AMERICA — $40,088 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE OF N AMERICAUSO — $9,101 · OtherUSOTHE SALVATION ARMY — $7,200 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient — $6,880 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE HUMAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · OtherKEEPER OF THE WILD — $3,000 · Other+20 more — $17,350 · Other+20 moreMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $10,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $1,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $2,500 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,500 · Public BenefitSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $1,000 · Public BenefitCITY HARVEST INC — $4,500 · Food & NutritionISLAND HARVEST LTD — $1,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $750 · Human Services
Animals$91,625Other$86,619Philanthropy$11,500Education$11,000Public Benefit$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,500Human Services$4,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $28,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE — $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLION HABITAT RANCH INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESAVERS INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECTING K9 HEROES NFP LTD — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GREYHOUND FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE WOLF SANCTUARY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER CONNECTION INC — $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Susan and Ford Sc…Surendra and Karen Gu…Seckinger Foundation …Farrell Family Founda…Bradford Family Found…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Bernard Weinberg Foun…PC Fund for Animals C…Amg Charitable Gift F…Rhm Foundation IncThe Edward E Hills Fu…Inga Ellzey Chis Foun…
The Susan and Ford Schumann FoundationAZ30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Farrell Family Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Rhm Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hills Fund · Inga Ellzey Chis Foundation Inc

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 Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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