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Thareja Sleeper Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
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 2024.

Education$66kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$7kInternational$4kHuman Services$4kPublic Benefit$3kReligion$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$461k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$10,000
HERMON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
LIFE IN YOGA INSTITUTE INC$4,500
WOMEN WITHIN INTERNATIONAL$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$1,500
MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM$1,500
NUTRITION FACTSORG$1,044
WAMU - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$1,000
OLNEY HELP$1,000
Individual grant recipient$250
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN WITHIN INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 16%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD: $100 → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
MO
WV
VA
MD
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 10 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$84k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+43%

Still filing today

40%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • NI
    Nutritionfactsorg Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +88%
  • OH
    OLNEY HELP INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +76%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATION CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • RR
    Raam Raj Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +121%
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
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
2
Life in Yoga Foundation

Supporting non-profit research and education in yoga

Education
3
Nonduality Institute Inc

The mission of the Nonduality Institute is to advance scientific understanding of nonduality through conducting research into neural signatures of nondual awareness and its effects on cognitive, affective and perceptual…

Health
4
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
5
Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc

To promote inner development and enlightenment in the individual and to create a peaceful and harmonious influence in the collective consciousness of society through the implementation of the programs of maharishi vedic science and…

Human Services
6
Food Yoga International Inc

FFLGs mission is to bring about peace and in the world through the liberal of pure meals with loving intention. Food for Life Global pursues its by providing and operating support to Food for Lifes vegan hunger relief.

Human Services
7
The Yogananda Foundation
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8
Yoga of Love Inc

Yoga of Love Inc. is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting unmotivated, uninterrupted loving service and comprehensive, holistic well-being through ancient Vedic mantra meditation. Our primary exempt purpose is to educate and widely empower…

Human Services
9
Wellness for Humanity Foundation
—
10
Yoga Research Foundation Inc
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11
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation

Maharishi vedic science and technology foundation (mvstf) is organized to provide programs that promote individual and societal peace, happiness, prosperity, and perfect health, by engaging in activities that increase and promote the…

Science & Tech
12
Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute Inc

To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. perform unbiased independent nutrition research and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Moving Forward Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $42,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDHERMON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · OtherHERMON ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEWAMU - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherWAMU - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY+10 more: $12,079 · Other+10 moreLIFE IN YOGA INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 · EducationLIFE IN Y…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN …Nutritionfactsorg Inc: $7,107 · Food & NutritionWoman Within International LTD: $4,000 · Human ServicesOLNEY HELP INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesRaam Raj Foundation: $1,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 · AnimalsCITY GATE LANCASTER: $86 · Religion
Other$75,079Education$8,500Food & Nutrition$7,107Human Services$7,100International$1,000Animals$250Religion$86

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 budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $7,107 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE IN YOGA INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWoman Within International LTD: $4,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetOLNEY HELP INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GATE LANCASTER: $86 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE IN YOGA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Woman Within International LTD ↗
  • Who funds OLNEY HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Raam Raj Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY GATE LANCASTER ↗

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.

Network for GoodDC8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Thareja Sleeper Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thareja Sleeper Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%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
    2get no government money at all
    4report 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 23 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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