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Shan & Rajam Theventhiran Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Shan & Rajam Theventhiran Charitable 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$106kEducation$14kPhilanthropy$6kHealth$3kReligion$450Food & Nutrition$440Youth Development$120Recreation & Sports$107Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$278
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION$36,800
SJC87 INITIATIVE INC$650
GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION USA$600
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$500
FEEDING AMERICA$300
UNICEF$278
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER$251
ST PATRICK'S CHURCH$150
THIRTEEN$120
TCS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON CHARITY$107
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$105
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $700 → 6%ILANKAI TAMIL SANGAM: $200 → 9%ST PATRICK'S CHURCH: $150 → 11%UNICEF: $278 → 17%BROOKLYN TEEN CHALLENGE: $100 → 20%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $200 → 28%CARE FOR EDUCATION: $5k → 16%GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION USA: $600 → 13%THE CARTER CENTER: $103 → 14%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $37k → 15%FEEDING AMERICA: $300 → 14%DURGA MANDIR: $250 → 11%ASSOCIATION HAITIENNE DE DVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN INC: $500 → 16%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $3k → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $110 → 11%UNICEF: $237 → 17%CARE FOR EDUCATION: $1k → 16%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $3k → 14%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $15k → 15%DURGA MANDIR: $201 → 11%ASSOCIATION HAITIENNE DE DVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN INC: $250 → 16%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $1k → 8%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%UNICEF: $114 → 17%CITY HARVEST: $140 → 20%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $3k → 14%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $13k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $650 → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $1k → 17%TECH KIDS UNLIMITED: $500 → 20%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $12k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $650 → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $251 → 17%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $10k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $650 → 8%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $250 → 17%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $9k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $650 → 8%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $5k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $500 → 8%THIRTEEN: $120 → 17%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $2k → 15%SJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $375 → 8%TCS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON CHARITY: $107 → 17%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $2k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $200 → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $200 → 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

IL
NY
OH
NJ
MD
DC
LA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 13 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$125k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+37%

Still filing today

54%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
InternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +107%
  • SI
    SJC87 INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +117%
  • CF
    Care for Education
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TK
    TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +81%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $200
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2024 · $140 · revenue +3%
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
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
2
Project Concern International

Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.

International
3
The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified
4
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
5
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
6
Fund the Un Incorporated

Fund The UN's mission is to raise funds for United Nations Agencies and partner charities that are working on the front lines to save lives in the world's large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Donations provide vital health care, medicine,…

International
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is SJC87 Initiative 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION: $104,350 · HealthINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION+2 more: $1,750 · HealthSJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $7,425 · EducationSJC87 INITI…Care for Education: $6,300 · EducationCare for Ed…+1 more: $163 · EducationNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,145 · Public Safety & DisasterDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $1,601 · OtherASSOCIATION HAITIENNE DE DVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN INC: $750 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $502 · OtherST PATRICK'S CHURCH: $350 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $300 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $200 · Other+4 more: $427 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $629 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $503 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 · InternationalGivenGain Foundation USA: $600 · PhilanthropyTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding America: $300 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $140 · Food & Nutrition
Health$106,100Education$13,888Public Safety & Disaster$5,145Other$4,730International$1,337Philanthropy$600Youth Development$500Food & Nutrition$440

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION: $104,350 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetSJC87 INITIATIVE INC: $7,425 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCare for Education: $6,300 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $629 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $503 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $163 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $50 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.

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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 Shan & Rajam Theventhiran Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shan & Rajam Theventhiran Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–10%
    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 26 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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