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Somaiya 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.

$138k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
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73% of Somaiya Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Somaiya Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $138k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’20
4
’21
3
’22
2
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$53,000
States reached, FY2020
5
Total assets, FY2020
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.5MHealth$458kEducation$206kHuman Services$63kInternational$30kYouth Development$10kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IN
PA
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Somaiya Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$225,00021%
Pratham USA$202,50040%
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc$100,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$21,00020%
Wheels Global Foundation$15,00013%
Girls Incorporated of New York City$10,08220%
Asha - Inc$5,0001n/a
Healthnet Foundation Inc$5,00012%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$3,70010%
Ascend Foundation Inc$3,60510%
Inova Health System Foundation$1,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Somaiya Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Inn at Nih Inc: $225,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPratham USA: $202,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheels Global Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGirls Incorporated of New York City: $10,082 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealthnet Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAscend Foundation Inc: $3,605 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInova Health System Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Somaiya Family Foundation

How much does Somaiya Family Foundation give?
Somaiya Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $138,350 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Somaiya Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (76%), Health (14%), Education (6%).
Who are Somaiya Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Children's Inn at Nih Inc ($225k), Pratham USA ($203k), Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ($100k).
Does Somaiya Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Somaiya Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Somaiya Family Foundation based?
Somaiya Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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