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Sanjay and Erzsebet Arora Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 2023.

Education$113kHuman Services$39kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL$20,000
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 (FY17–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $14k → 16%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO INC: $1k → 13%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $3k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $2k → 16%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 4 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$152k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SD
    SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $106k · revenue +16%
  • ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $39k · revenue +11%
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +275%

Funded once

  • FC
    FENCERS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • MP
    MADISON PLAYGROUP LTD
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +4%
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.

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International Preschools

To operation preschool education programs in the New York City metropolitan area.

Education
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
International School of Brooklyn

We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…

Education
4
The Park School of Buffalo

The school engages the student in a diverse and creative community that nurtures the joy and responsibility of active learning in all, from our youngest learners to our graduates, who leave with the skills essential to college success and…

Education
5
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
6
Internationals Network for Public Schools Inc

The mission of internationals network for public schools ("internationals or "internationals network") is to provide quality education for recently arrived immigrants by growing and sustaining a strong national network of innovative…

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7
French-American School of New York

Fasny develops globally literate, multi-cultural lifelong learners through a unique program that integrates french, american, and international curricula.

Arts & Culture
8
The Fund for Public Schools Inc

The fund for public schools is dedicated to supporting new york city's public schools with private, philanthropic investment from foundations, individuals, businesses, and other charitable partners.

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9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Public Prep Charter School Academies

Our mission is simple: we aim to guide children to realize their inherent greatness. from a very young age, we reinforce to our scholars that they are agents of change. we guide scholars to embody the values of scholarship, excellence,…

Education
11
Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School

Cristo rey brooklyn is a catholic high school partnering with families of all creeds to educate deserving young people from underserved communities to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service. by integrating a rigorous…

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12
Capital Preparatory Schools Inc

To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Episcopal School in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is The International Institute of Buffalo. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $105,500 · OtherSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOLFENCERS CLUB INC: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $39,450 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $4,000 · EducationTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,350 · EducationFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$112,000Human Services$40,450Education$7,350Food & Nutrition$1,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $105,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $39,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFENCERS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sanjay and Erzsebet Arora Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanjay and Erzsebet Arora Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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