· Private foundation
Rohit & Katharine Desai Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of ROHIT & KATHARINE DESAI FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $113,450 |
| US SQUASH | $50,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $31,200 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FUND | $20,000 |
| MANAV SADHNA | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT | $11,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES | $5,000 |
| GIRLS WITH IMPACT | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- MSMANAV SADHNA7× · 2018–2025 · $288k · revenue +7% · 39% of their budget
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +916%
- SSSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
- TETWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -65%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is Norfolk Foundation Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 117 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 MANAV SADHNA ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDIA COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET VERO BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STOWE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCADIUM ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Carwill Foundation · Akc Fund Inc · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Rohit & Katharine Desai Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Africa Partners Inc — 42% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ballet Vero Beach Inc — 0% of income from government
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.