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Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$529k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.8MReligion$981kHousing & Shelter$962kFood & Nutrition$895kInternational$733kPublic Safety & Disaster$580kCommunity Improvement$445kHealth$421kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION$529,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION$400,000
FRIENDS OF MERCY FOUNDATION$400,000
HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION$100,000
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION$100,000
SHANTIKUNJ OF NORTH AMERICA CENTER$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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $75k → 18%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $40k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $3k → 18%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
MN
IL
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
WV
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 26 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

$6.5M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+4%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BS
    BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $735k · revenue +10%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +13%
  • RR
    Raam Raj Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • TG
    THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -35%
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +77%
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
California Institute of Integral Studies

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…

Education
2
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
3
Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

International
4
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Center for the study of the Americas

Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security

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10
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
11
Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment
12
Renaissance Philanthropy Fund

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.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 78 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/47
Grantees still filing
21/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION: $1,529,000 · OtherFRESNO STATE FOUNDATIONFLOOD MINISTRIES: $635,302 · OtherFLOOD MINISTRIESFRIENDS OF MERCY FOUNDATION: $612,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF MERCY FOUNDATIONRODALE INSTITUTE CALIFORNIA ORGANIC CENTER: $315,000 · OtherRODALE INSTITUTE CALIFORNIA ORGANIC CENTERFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $250,000 · OtherTHE CLEAR FUND: $250,000 · OtherDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $195,000 · Other+50 more: $1,637,201 · Other+50 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $801,250 · EducationCALIFORNIA STA…BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $310,400 · EducationBAKERSFIELD CO…PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $735,200 · ReligionBRAHMANAN…+2 more: $11,000 · ReligionTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionRodale Institute: $200,000 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS: $100,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $225,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $200,000 · InternationalRaam Raj Foundation: $21,536 · InternationalGLOBAL CAPITAL OF WORLD PEACE: $20,001 · International+2 more: $11,529 · InternationalCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $450,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $250,000 · EnvironmentFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentTREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC: $17,650 · Environment
Other$5,424,003Education$1,211,650Religion$746,200Food & Nutrition$575,000International$478,066Public Safety & Disaster$450,000Environment$327,650

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 budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $801,250 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $735,200 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $310,400 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRodale Institute: $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBETHANY SERVICES INC: $174,634 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $115,358 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKaruna Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $21,536 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL CAPITAL OF WORLD PEACE: $20,001 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC: $17,650 over 2y, 16% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAfrican Childrens Schools: $11,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetECKHART TOLLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNO PAWS LEFT BEHIND: $8,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetGlobal Family Care Network Inc: $6,529 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance: $5,001 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PTSD RECOVERY CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMexican American Opportunity Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGANDHIAN SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVolunteer Center of Kern County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Kern Community Founda…Valley Strong Cu Fka …The Virginia and Alfr…The California Endowm…Seedcore FoundationThe Rona and Jeffrey …The James Irvine Foun…Louis and Sheryl Barb…Invincibility Foundat…David L Lieb Foundati…Schwartz Family Found…Diane S Lake Charitab…
Kern Community FoundationCA27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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