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Rohit & Katharine Desai Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$455k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$978kEducation$630kRecreation & Sports$585kFood & Nutrition$291kHealth$137kEnvironment$57kReligion$49kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$113,450
ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE$50,000
US SQUASH$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
GIRLS WITH IMPACT$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 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
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 63 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
39

Total granted

$2.5M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +916%
  • SS
    STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +18%
  • MC
    MEDIA COLLECTIVE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +120%
  • SE
    SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +20%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
4
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

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9
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
51/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US SQUASH: $579,615 · OtherUS SQUASHMANAV SADHNA: $287,500 · OtherMANAV SADHNAHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FUND: $207,000 · OtherHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FUNDNORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: $117,115 · OtherNORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVALWELLESLEY COLLEGE FRIENDS OF ART: $97,000 · OtherWELLESLEY COLLEGE FRIENDS OF ART+53 more: $399,382 · Other+53 moreVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $270,380 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF A…ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $46,784 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCUTAH FILM CENTER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $30,740 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORC…JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET VERO BEACH INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $22,520 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $34,224 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $121,000 · EducationSTONELEIG…THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationTHE HOTCH…THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STOWE INC: $23,000 · EducationTHE AMERI…CIRCADIUM: $14,000 · EducationCIRCADIUMSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Education+13 more: $39,654 · Education+13 moreMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC: $110,000 · HealthMEDIA COL…MAYO CLINIC: $80,000 · HealthMAYO CLIN…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthINDIAN RI…+3 more: $7,700 · HealthBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $24,630 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $14,900 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $5,280 · EnvironmentHUMAN IMPACTS INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentPRATHAM USA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLARK FOUNDATION: $1,370 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $10,835 · InternationalSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $10,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalSOUTH AFRICA PARTNERS INC: $2,500 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $2,000 · InternationalMERTON COLLEGE CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $2,000 · International
Other$1,687,612Arts & Culture$564,148Education$235,654Health$232,700Environment$47,810Philanthropy$32,870International$32,835

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANAV SADHNA: $287,500 over 7y, 39% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $270,380 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $121,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $46,784 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $30,740 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $29,600 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $29,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $24,630 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET VERO BEACH INC: $24,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STOWE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $22,520 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $14,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCADIUM: $14,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $10,835 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $9,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $5,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORFOLK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAmerican Vaulting Association DBA Equestrian Vaulting USA: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH AFRICA PARTNERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • 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 STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Indian River Communit…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundChubb Charitable Foun…The Bessemer Giving F…The Carwill FoundationAkc Fund IncThe William and Mary …Boston Foundation IncBerkshire Taconic Com…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rohit & Katharine Desai Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rohit & Katharine Desai Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 117 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home