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Saxena Family 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.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$872kHealth$658kEducation$408kReligion$127kCivil Rights$50kPublic Benefit$50kRecreation & Sports$49kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH ASIAN IMPACT FOUNDATION$50,000
VISION-AID INCORPORATED$25,000
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC$15,000
MAYHEW$12,500
FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC$10,000
DESAI FOUNDATION$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC$3,750
THE ELLIE FUND$1,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC$500
HOPKINTON YOUTH FIELD HOCKEY INC$251
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC: $500 → 7%INDIAN AMERICAN IMPACT PROJECT: $25k → 14%INDIAN AMERICAN IMPACT PROJECT: $25k → 14%Community Servings Inc: $330 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
SC
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Saxena Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Saxena Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 16 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$2.0M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+20%

Still filing today

88%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AP
    AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $630k · revenue +239%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +188%
  • VI
    VISION-AID INCORPORATED
    4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • VH
    VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +79%
  • TF
    TIE-BOSTON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -48%
  • S
    SOHARA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Iisc Foundation

The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…

Education
2
Rhode Island Quality Institute

To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…

Health
3
Us-India Policy Institute

Us-india policy institute (usipi)undertaking policy research on diversity and inclusive developments in india and the usa. usipis vision for equal access to freedom,justice, and opportunity in india rests on its three pillars; research &…

Arts & Culture
4
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

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5
The Desai Foundation
Education
6
Ashra Charitable Fund Inc

Provide financial assistance to orphanages,old-age homes, provide educational scholarships to orphans, arrange health camps and food drives for orphanages and old-age homes.

International
7
Sankara Eye Foundation Usa

To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…

Health
8
Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
Intelehealth Inc

Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…

International
11
Asha Partners

To eliminate poverty through the creation of sustainable and effective community development projects, and to create holistic transformation by bringing hope, empowerment, and healing to those with the greatest need.

Religion
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Military Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%57%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND W — $550,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM …VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 · OtherVISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INCIndian American Impact Project — $50,000 · OtherIndian American Impact ProjectSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $48,750 · Other+25 more — $187,980 · Other+25 moreAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $630,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA)INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC — $300,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL FO…FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC — $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF TEACH…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $20,000 · EducationMassachusetts In…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE AMERI…VISION-AID INCORPORATED — $76,000 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthPRATHAM USA — $62,500 · PhilanthropyDESAI FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropySouth Asian Impact Foundation — $50,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $2,500 · Public Benefit
Other$936,730Food & Nutrition$630,000Education$346,000Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Health$76,250Philanthropy$74,500Public Benefit$52,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $630,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC — $300,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVISHWA HINDU PARISHAD OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetVISION-AID INCORPORATED — $76,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $62,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndian American Impact Project — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSouth Asian Impact Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $48,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTIE-BOSTON FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR INDIA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOSTON CARDIAC FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HINDI MANCH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetMAYHEW — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHACKREDUCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT — $2,148 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNEHALAYA AMERICA'S INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI LIGHT GLOBAL INC — $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HALLIE — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Fiduciary Charitable …Verizon FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Sawhney Family Fdn Di…American Tower Corpor…Salesforce FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust CharitableMA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Verizon Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Sawhney Family Fdn Dima-Etf · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Saxena 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines