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Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$6k67%
FY20243$6k0%
FY20233$6k0%
FY20228$8k13%
FY20217$5k0%
FY20208$5k63%
FY201916$7k13%
FY201817$9k29%
78% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$18kReligion$7kInternational$4kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kHealth$1kAnimals$845Food & Nutrition$400Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$6,00030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,00020%
Hindu Temple of the Woodlands$2,00220%
Depelchin Children's Center$1,50120%
Defenders of Wildlife$52060%
Star of Hope Mission$30030%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$21530%
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More$20020%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$20020%
The Houston Food Bank$20020%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$6,00030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,00020%
Hindu Temple of the Woodlands$2,00220%
Depelchin Children's Center$1,50120%
Defenders of Wildlife$52060%
Star of Hope Mission$30030%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$21530%
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More$20020%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$20020%
The Houston Food Bank$20020%
Sierra Club$11520%
Ocean Conservancy$1810%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHindu Temple of the Woodlands: $2,002 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDepelchin Children's Center: $1,501 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $520 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $215 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $18 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 12.

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About Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation

How much does Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation give?
Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (30%), Religion (12%), International (7%).
Who are Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($6k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($4k), Hindu Temple of the Woodlands ($2k).
Does Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar 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.
Where is Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation based?
Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation is based in TX.

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 29 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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