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Taneja 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $305k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARC INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC | $250,000 |
| JAGADGURU KRIPALUJI YOG TRUST | $150,000 |
| CAMP CHIPEWA FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERACY INC | $50,000 |
| THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL TRUST | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $12,500 |
| FREE MEALS ON WHEELS | $12,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $5,000 |
| 13TH ST CAT RESCUE | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $101k · revenue +123%
- DIDEVELOPMENTS IN LITERACY INC2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%
- BBBOSTON BHANGRA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $250k
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +98%
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +86%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABS INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Chippewa Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Advanced Energy Institute ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BHANGRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds Haven Media Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BALAJI MATHA ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Barr Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Taneja Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Bhangra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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