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Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
THE HUMAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$2,000
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT$2,000
PETA$2,000
COVENANT HOUSE$1,000
LIFESAVERS WILD HORSE RESCUE$1,000
LITTLE LOGEARS MINIATURE DONKEY RES$1,000
IFAW$1,000
NRDC$1,000
ECO EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
USO$1,000
CARTER RESERVOIR MUSTANGS INC$1,000
ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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

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

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

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%
+19%

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
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

  • 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
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -44%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
23/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetWHITE WOLF SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarter Reservoir Mustangs Inc Carter Reservoir Mustangs Registry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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

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 Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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