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The Ganga Hansji Foundation at a glance

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The Ganga Hansji Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$274k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$124k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

International$843kPhilanthropy$205kFood & Nutrition$167kHuman Services$146kCivil Rights$117kReligion$103kEducation$66kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $244k
$120,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$228k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION$123,500
DIVINE WILL FOUNDATION$120,000
COPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION$27,000
EKTAA CENTER FOR SASA$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%H2H FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%ONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $124k → 10%H2H FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%ONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%H2H FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%NARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $14k → 10%NARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $4k → 10%NARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $1k → 10%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+20%

Still filing today

55%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SITANJALI FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $713k · revenue +89% · 32% of their budget
  • CA
    COPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $117k · revenue +164%
  • EC
    EKTAA CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR ALL CO
    one grant, 2024 · $66k · revenue 0%
  • SG
    SAI GLOBAL MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -60%
  • LH
    LIBERTY HOUSE OF OC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

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
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
2
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
3
Samjivani Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Sanjay Shah Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Simha Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Sai Spiritual Foundation

Help establish unity of faith and welcome all spiritual seekers of all religions; realize the Inherent Divinity within as per Sathya SaiBaba

Religion
8
Samarpan Foundation Usa
—
9
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Charak Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Desai Foundation
Education
12
Shraman Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sai Global Mission; the most unlike its peers is H2H Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SITANJALI FOUNDATION: $712,911 · InternationalSITANJALI FOUNDATIONDIVINE WILL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · InternationalDIVINE WILL FOUNDATION+2 more: $10,000 · InternationalOM CHARITABLE TRUST OF USA: $140,000 · OtherOM CHARITABLE TRUST OF …EDUCATION FOR ALL CO: $66,000 · OtherEDUCATION FOR ALL COLOVE ALL SERVE ALL: $64,480 · OtherLOVE ALL SERVE ALLThe Akshaya Parta Foundation: $30,000 · OtherThe Akshaya Parta Found…NARA Foundation: $19,500 · OtherNARA Foundation+10 more: $23,650 · Other+10 moreONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $148,500 · Human ServicesONE WORLD ONE FAMILY …H2H FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Human ServicesH2H FOUNDATIONNARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $18,535 · Human ServicesNARA FOUNDATION GROUPCOPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $117,000 · Civil RightsTHE SAI RAM FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $2,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $150 · Health
International$842,911Other$343,630Human Services$312,035Civil Rights$117,000Philanthropy$45,000Health$2,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSITANJALI FOUNDATION: $712,911 over 7y, 32% of budgetONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $148,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $117,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CO: $66,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE SAI RAM FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $18,535 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetSAI GLOBAL MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEKTAA CENTER: $4,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SITANJALI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD ONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIVINE WILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CO ↗
  • Who funds THE SAI RAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NARA FOUNDATION GROUP ↗
  • Who funds SAI GLOBAL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds FLYING SAMARITANS ↗
  • Who funds EKTAA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Chinmaya Mission Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds CHOC 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Ganga Hansji Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ganga Hansji Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ganga Hansji Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ganga Hansji Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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