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The Arjun Gupta 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.

$415k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$752kSocial Science$687kHealth$197kEnvironment$168kFood & Nutrition$110kInternational$85kPhilanthropy$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $294k
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$757k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$143,500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$50,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$50,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL$36,806
THEATRE ASPEN$35,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS$10,700
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$7,700
MAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION$5,000
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER NATIONAL FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOME OF HOPE INC: $5k → 7%NEW STORY INC: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 11 repeat orgs$686k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
28

Total granted

$2.4M
$522k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

  • MA
    MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $838k · revenue +141%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $687k · revenue +231%
  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN
    6× · 2018–2024 · $376k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • EI
    EDESIA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +84%
  • CG
    CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zoe Foundation for Infusion Art Therapy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsChild and Family ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community FoundationsSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Hospice Care ServicesCommunity Health CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsEducation Equity LeadershipCancer Support OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Public University Foundatio…Government Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%55%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,375

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $837,943 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INCTHEATRE ASPEN — $375,725 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPENGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE+6 more — $99,650 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $687,145 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE I…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $428,489 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALI…COLLEGE TRACK — $25,000 · EducationKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $24,000 · EducationWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherWESTERN COLORADO…Rocky Mountain Institute — $50,000 · OtherRocky Mountain I…HARVARD COLLEGE — $50,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGECALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA GOVER…SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $45,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY…POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $51,600 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY…+12 more — $75,450 · Other+12 moreEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $100,000 · HealthZOE FOUNDATION FOR INFUSION ART THERAPY — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentRARE — $25,000 · EnvironmentASPEN INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $7,700 · EnvironmentEDESIA INC — $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,388,318Social Science$687,145Education$592,489Other$522,050Health$146,000Environment$117,700Food & Nutrition$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $837,943 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $687,145 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $428,489 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $375,725 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEDESIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $51,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $34,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRARE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZOE FOUNDATION FOR INFUSION ART THERAPY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Farm Collaborative — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $7,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW STORY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Gaden Sharste Cultural Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPartnerships For Change — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOME OF HOPE LLC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPathfinders — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Aspen Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Tides FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
Aspen Community FoundationCO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 The Arjun Gupta 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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