· Private foundation
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION | $529,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MERCY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| SHANTIKUNJ OF NORTH AMERICA CENTER | $100,000 |
| BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RODALE INSTITUTE CALIFORNIA ORGANIC CENTER | $65,000 |
| FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| OPEN DOOR NETWORK | $40,358 |
| KARUNA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,422 |
| RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL CAPITAL OF WORLD PEACE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- BSBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $735k · revenue +10%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +13%
- RRRaam Raj Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FNFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +77%
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -35%
- TCTHE CLEAR FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +31%
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.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Our mission is to fuel a 21st-century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists, and innovators. our vision is a brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is No Paws Left Behind. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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. 47 of the 78 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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Karuna Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · The California Endowment · Seedcore Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Louis and Sheryl Barbich Foundation · Invincibility Foundation · David L Lieb Foundation Inc · Schwartz Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee
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 Ravi and Naina Patel 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.
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