· Private foundation
The Agarwal 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ART FORUM | $5,000 |
| AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION USA | $2,500 |
| MILAAN FOUNDATION | $2,160 |
| SANGEETHAAMSHA | $2,000 |
| TIE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALI AKBAR COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $1,000 |
| HINDU TEMPLE OF GREATER CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| TULE ELK PARK FAMILY COUNCIL | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SF SPCA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Agarwal Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 20%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION8× · 2017–2024 · $428k · revenue +34%
University of Illinois Foundation4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +127%- SESANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA5× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- LPLOTUS PETAL USAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +39%
- UPUTTAR PRADESH MANDAL OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +177%
- MFMILAAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
India House Foundation is dedicated to the protection of democracy and human rights in India, from the perspective of Indian-Americans based in the USA.
Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…
Facilitating international charitable donations to support urgent and high-impact needs in India, including healthcare, education, livelihoods, and social welfare, by enabling U.S. donors to give to vetted causes through Milaap.org.
Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds INDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds LOTUS PETAL USA ↗
- Who funds INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE LLC ↗
- Who funds UTTAR PRADESH MANDAL OF AMERICA (UPMA) ↗
- Who funds IITK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUKARMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LEILA JANAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAITRI ↗
- Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ART FORUM ↗
- Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds Milaan Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALI AKBAR COLLEGE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Together SF ↗
- Who funds Oasis Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Narika ↗
- Who funds TIE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tarsadia Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundation · Krishnan-Shah Family Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Agarwal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Agarwal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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