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Subodh and Smita Sonwalkar Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0178% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERI$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $100 → 8%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $100 → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%DE PELCHN CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 16%DE PECHIN: $500 → 16%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 24 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
2

Total granted

$55k
$118

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+97%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalReligionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +46%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +98%
  • HT
    HINDU TEMPLE OF THE WOODLANDS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +304%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100
  • OC
    OCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18 · revenue +97%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
8
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
9
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
10
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
11
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Hindu Temple of the Woodlands. 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

13 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. 13 of the 29 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,001 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,003 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA: $3,003 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $3,003 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERI: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $3,140 · Other+11 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,501 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHIL…+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalHINDU TEMPLE OF THE WOODLANDS: $2,002 · ReligionDefenders of Wildlife: $520 · AnimalsSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $300 · Housing & ShelterENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $200 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $18 · EnvironmentPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $215 · Health
Other$45,150Human Services$7,701International$4,000Religion$2,002Animals$520Housing & Shelter$300Environment$218Health$215

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 5y, 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
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HINDU TEMPLE OF THE WOODLANDS ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 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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