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Suman Karwa Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Suman Karwa Charitable 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$11kReligion$9kEnvironment$5kInternational$4kHealth$4kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
6
States reached
$275k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROTARY CLUB$1,000
UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER$500
THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA$500
HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$200
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$200
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$200
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CTR$100
GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER$100
ARSHA VIDYA PITHAM$100
PARTNER IN HEALTH$100
CALVARY HOSPITAL$100
ASPCA$100
CARTER CENTER$100
USA FOR UNHCR$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ARSHA VIDYA PITHAM: $201 → 12%GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER: $500 → 9%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%OGKTMA: $2k → 10%THE ROTARY CLUB: $1k → 14%GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER: $250 → 9%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $200 → 17%SHARE: $2k → 14%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $2k → 14%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $2k → 14%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $1k → 14%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $1k → 14%INDIA CENTER OF WESTCHESTER: $2k → 9%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $1k → 14%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%SHARE: $1k → 14%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%THE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $500 → 13%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%UNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $500 → 17%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%HINDU TEMPLE OF TRISTATE: $500 → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $200 → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CTR: $200 → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $200 → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$32k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-13%

Still filing today

47%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
InternationalHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +81%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +98%
  • NL
    NUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IC
    India Center of Westchester Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue -13%
  • O
    OGKTMA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
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
3
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
4
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
5
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
6
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
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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8
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
9
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
10
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
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
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
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 India Center of Westchester 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARE: $10,000 · OtherSHAREHINDU TEMPLE OF TRI-STATE INC: $4,000 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE OF TRI-STATE INCTHE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICA: $4,000 · OtherTHE HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF NAMERICAUNICEF FOR CLEAN WATER: $4,000 · OtherUNICEF FOR CLEAN WATEROGKTMA: $1,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1,100 · OtherCARTER CENTER: $1,100 · OtherTHE ROTARY CLUB: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $1,581 · Other+8 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,600 · InternationalInternation…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…United States Association for UNHCR: $600 · InternationalUnited Stat…+1 more: $50 · InternationalAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $700 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $400 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $300 · HealthIndia Center of Westchester Inc: $1,501 · Arts & CultureNUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER: $1,150 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 · Animals
Other$28,281International$3,650Health$1,700Arts & Culture$1,501Environment$1,150Animals$100

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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIndia Center of Westchester Inc: $1,501 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER: $1,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30 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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds India Center of Westchester Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Suman Karwa Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suman Karwa Charitable 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    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 27 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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