How much does Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation give?

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation reported 174 grants totaling $1,495,714 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Animals (24%), Science & Tech (7%).

Who are Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ohio State University Foundation ($400k), IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation ($210k), The Hindu Temple of St Louis ($63k).

Does Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bradford Family Foundation, PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.

Where is Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation based?

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation is based in MO.

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

174

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

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 2025.

Education$1.4MAnimals$712kScience & Tech$222kEnvironment$116kHuman Services$115kInternational$107kHealth$104kReligion$66kOther$0

02FY2025 · 174 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k163 grants · $354k
$10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$50k–250k3 grants · $510k
$250k+2 grants · $551k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$300,000
ST LOUIS ZOO	$251,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS	$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI- ST LOUIS	$200,000
IIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$110,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND	$22,000
RADHA NEEL MADHAR CHARITY FOUNDATION	$17,400
SWEET CELEBRATIONS	$11,000
FEED THE HUNGRY	$10,000
PARAQUAD	$10,000
RUSTIC HOLLOW SHELTER	$10,000
GREENPEACE	$9,000
HUMANE SOCIETY MISSOURI	$8,500
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION	$8,500
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND	$7,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 145 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

145 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145

Total granted

$2.7M

$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+1%

Still filing today

72%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

OS
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +9%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
4× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue +16%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
6× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +47%

Funded once

P
PURE
one grant, 2023 · $48k
TR
The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Childrengraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +65%
WS
WAYNE STATE FUND DETROIT
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Peace 4 Animals

Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…

Animals

Best Friends Animal Society

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.

Animals

Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals

Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 276 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

173/174

Grantees still filing

96/174

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,671,335Education$458,500International$325,220Animals$290,185Health$64,790Human Services$59,650Environment$54,132

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

Bradford Family FoundationMO63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc

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 Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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