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Shanthi and Thomas Chelliah Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shanthi and Thomas Chelliah 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$125kCommunity Improvement$8kInternational$8kMembership Benefit$8kHousing & Shelter$4kArts & Culture$2kEnvironment$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 042-130-854$6,000
COLLEGE CHURCH INC$4,500
CHRISTINA'S HOUSE$2,000
BOMBYX CENTER FOR ARTS AND EQUITY INC$1,200
THE ORION SOCIETY$1,200
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTINA'S HOUSE: $2k → 17%CHRISTINA'S HOUSE: $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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 12 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$155k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+33%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalReligionMembership BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • PS
    PEER SERVANTS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +134%
  • AO
    ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • HF
    Hope for Our Sisters Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • FN
    FORERUNNERS NATIONCHANGERS INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
  • CO
    CHURCH ON THE ROCK
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

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2
Angels in Africa
International
3
All for Jesus Inc

All For Jesus travels throughout the United States and to the nations of the world, boldly declaring the gospel of Christ. We believe that now is the time to see the nations bow to jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, to see the sick healed,…

Religion
4
Worldwide Friends of Ugandan Orphans Inc
Human Services
5
Oceans of Mercy

Missionary work in the nation of India

Religion
6
Global Seedsowers
Religion
7
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
8
Sero Group Inc

ORPHAN CARE: Sero Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit community development initiative with local and global reach seeking to strengthen neighborhoods and villages through orphan care, education, microfinance, revitalization, legal aid, and…

International
9
2 the World 4 His Glory

Ministry in south america

Religion
10
Sunergos International

Serve orphans, elderly, refugees and the poor.

Human Services
11
Opal Ministries Inc

Serving churches and christian leaders in the majority world by equipping them with affordable bibles and quality evangelical literture.

Religion
12
The Filter Project

The Filter Project is a parachurch ministry whose mission is to pour Gods love into under-resourced communities through the gift of safe, filtered, drinking water in Kenya and plan to serve into additional countries in the future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Servants Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE CHAPEL INC: $53,500 · OtherGRACE CHAPEL INCCOLLEGE CHURCH INC: $46,000 · OtherCOLLEGE CHURCH INCST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 042-130-854: $14,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 042-130-854Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHURCH ON THE ROCK INTERNATIONAL MI: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $8,500 · Other+5 morePEER SERVANTS INC: $7,800 · InternationalPEER SERV…ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $3,200 · InternationalALLEGRO O…LIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalLIVING WA…Hope for Our Sisters Inc: $1,500 · InternationalHope for …Allegro: $7,600 · Membership BenefitCHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED: $4,000 · Human ServicesFORERUNNERS NATIONCHANGERS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · ReligionBombyx Center for Arts and Equity: $2,400 · Arts & CultureTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $2,400 · Environment
Other$134,500International$14,500Membership Benefit$7,600Human Services$4,000Religion$3,000Arts & Culture$2,400Environment$2,400

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 budgetPEER SERVANTS INC: $7,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBombyx Center for Arts and Equity: $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORERUNNERS NATIONCHANGERS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHope for Our Sisters Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $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.

  • Who funds PEER SERVANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Allegro ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity ↗
  • Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FORERUNNERS NATIONCHANGERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Our Sisters Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗

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 E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Shanthi and Thomas Chelliah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shanthi and Thomas Chelliah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity: 3% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 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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