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Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Education$178kHealth$67kPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$15kFood & Nutrition$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECTRUM BIOBANK INC$10,713
PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,500
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$1,400
MONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$600
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%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

VT
MA
OR
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 6 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$166k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+46%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NS
    NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $45k
  • SB
    SPECTRUM BIOBANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue -99%
  • PV
    PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • Oregon State University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +27%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • RE
    Renaissance Entrepreneurship Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +141%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
2
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
3
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
4
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
9
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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10
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
11
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
12
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nami National. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Oregon State University Foundation: $42,000 · EducationOregon State University FoundationPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONLUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,500 · EducationLUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE F…CAL POLY CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationCAL POLY CORPORATIONNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $45,300 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESWINDMILL SCHOOL AND FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER: $10,000 · OtherWINDMILL SCHOOL AND FAMILY EDUCATIO…MONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherMONTA VISTA HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSIY OF VERMONT: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSIY OF VERMONT+3 more: $4,500 · OtherSPECTRUM BIOBANK INC: $33,755 · HealthSPECTRUM BIOBANK INCLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $29,500 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $1,400 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAR…Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINA: $5,000 · Community ImprovementINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · International
Education$90,500Other$91,800Health$64,655Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$15,000Human Services$5,000International$2,500

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 budgetOregon State University Foundation: $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM BIOBANK INC: $33,755 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA COCINA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $1,000 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 Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sameer Ishwar Murarka Memorial 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 20 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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