How much does The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation give?

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $48,785 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), International (20%), Environment (15%).

Who are The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($12k), Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc ($12k), Ocean Conservancy ($7k).

Does The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation based?

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation is based in FL.

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$23k

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$142kInternational$61kEnvironment$44kAnimals$14kArts & Culture$12kHealth$11kReligion$3kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $26k
$10k–50k1 grant · $23k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$857k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DEENA BANDHU TRUST	$22,535
US FUNDS FOR UNICEF	$8,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$4,000
WEDU PBS	$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$2,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$1,500
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$1,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION	$1,000
PARALYZED VETS OF AMERICA	$500
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND	$500
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE	$500
ACLU	$500
BLUE MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR MEDITATION	$500
NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY	$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 54% of grant dollars ($162k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 46% that went abroad ($138k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

Beyond the US: 46% of all-years giving ($138k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

India$138k · 9 grants

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. 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 sends the money.

About 17% of The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Chan Desaigoudar Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 46% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$274k · 42 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$274k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+57%

Still filing today

60%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +98%
FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +275%
OC
OCEAN CONSERVANCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +97%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +57%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $500
RF
RICHMOND FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $300

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nrdc Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

20/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$244,179Environment$18,326International$15,558Arts & Culture$11,750Health$4,350Human Services$2,675Civil Rights$2,500

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chan Desaigoudar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home