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Somaiya Family Foundation at a glance

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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
5
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S INN$53,000
PRATHAM USA$52,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$16,000
INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND$5,150
ASHA INC$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,700
INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 22%ASCEND FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $75k → 16%MIAMI UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 15%ASHA INC: $5k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $4k → 17%HEALTHNET FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $16k → 7%VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION: $1k → 21%FOUNDATION FOR NIH: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 22%GIRLS INC OF NEW YORK CITY: $7k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $53k → 16%WHEELS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND: $5k → 8%GIRLS INC OF NEW YORK CITY: $4k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $50k → 16%INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND: $5k → 8%PRATHAM USA: $25k → 16%CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH: $200k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S INN: $53k → 8%CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH: $25k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S INN: $10k → 8%FRIENDS AT NIH: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF PATIENTS AT NIH: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF PATIENTS AT NIH: $1k → 8%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

NY
OR
IN
PA
VA
MD
TN
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$524k · 6 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$524k
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +54%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $203k · revenue +5%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $21k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +11%
  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • WG
    WHEELS GLOBAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +28%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
3
International Vaccine Institute

To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.

International
4
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
11
Genomic Data Initiative
Science & Tech
12
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asha - 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,501,784 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCPRATHAM USA: $202,500 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USACHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $225,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S I…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $100,000 · HealthFoundation f…American Heart Association Inc: $21,000 · HealthAmerican Hea…+3 more: $9,700 · HealthMIAMI UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $100,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INN: $63,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherWHEELS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalINDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $10,150 · InternationalGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $10,082 · Civil RightsASHA - INC: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationAscend Foundation Inc: $3,605 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$2,704,284Health$355,700Other$166,000International$25,150Civil Rights$10,082Education$8,000Community Improvement$3,605

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,501,784 over 4y, 0.0% of 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 budgetINDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Somaiya Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Somaiya Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 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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