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The Asha and Sajjan 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 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hindu Society of NC | $1,250,000 |
| Rishihood Foundation | $600,000 |
| Hindu University of America | $300,000 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund | $150,000 |
| Sri Venkateswara Temple of NC | $150,000 |
| Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| Texas Hindu Campsite Inc | $100,000 |
| Hindu American Foundation | $100,000 |
| Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) | $100,000 |
| Ramakrishna Vedenta Society | $75,000 |
| Dharma Civilization Foundation | $65,000 |
| Hindu Society of NC | $60,000 |
| Raleigh Rescue Mission | $50,000 |
| Global Network Foundation | $50,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($13M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($1.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($1.5M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 65% of The Asha and Sajjan Agarwal Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $715k 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
- HUHindu University of America3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
- EVEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA4× · 2018–2022 · $587k · revenue +22%
- HAHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $452k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- SVSri Venkateswara Temple of North Carolinaone grant, 2022 · $200k
CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -36%- AOART OF LIVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -46%
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 american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
Religious activities and enhancing hindu religious culture
The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.
Promoting well being of individuals through the education and assistance of mindful living, meditation, and education of vedic and indian practices.
Support & protect human rights.
Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.
To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Healthcare and education for the needy
Cultural and religious activities for the community
Uplifting the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels and welfare of individuals through the yogic practices of sacred ancient himalayan modalities of shiv yog to awaken the inner infinite potential.
To impart hindu vedic education which is the study of ancient sanskrit scriptures to those who are interested, and to provide a place of worship to hindu religion followers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hindu American Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triangle Area Hindu Temples Association. 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 40 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.
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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: Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 Asha and Sajjan Agarwal 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.
- Year Up 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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