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The Gangwal Foundation at a glance

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The Gangwal 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$52kInternational$33kArts & Culture$13kPhilanthropy$10kReligion$8kEducation$3kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$255k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GO PHILANTHROPIC CHARITABLE FUND: $500 → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GLOBAL GIVING: $250 → 14%ART FOR A CAUSE: $150 → 21%JAIN SOCIETY OF GREATER CHICAGO: $5k → 7%CAL'S ANGELS: $150 → 8%RAGDALE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%LET'S TALK WOMXN: $3k → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%JAIN SOCIETY OF GREATER CHICAGO: $3k → 7%PURSUE SCHOLARS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SAVE A MOTHER: $5k → 7%LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SAVE A MOTHER: $1k → 7%LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250 → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%NATIONAL INDO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $5k → 14%AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%NATIONAL INDO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $3k → 14%JUNIOR AIF CHICAGO: $105 → 17%INDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PAK AMERICAN MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 14%APNA GHAR INC: $1k → 14%NATIONAL INDO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1k → 14%APNA GHAR INC: $800 → 14%INDO-AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1k → 14%CHICAGO RUN: $200 → 14%NCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BACOA: $250 → 14%VISTEX FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 7 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$102k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
0%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NC
    Northwest Community Hospital
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +113%
  • NI
    National Indo American Museum
    4× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +403%

Funded once

  • SS
    SANJAY SHAH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -121%
  • LT
    LET'S TALK WOMXN (FKA MSEDG - MEHAK SEHAR EDUCATING GIRLS GLOBALLY NFP)
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • PS
    PURSUE SCHOLARS NFP
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -10%
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
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
3
Indo American Development and Health Organization
International
4
Motwani Jadeja Global Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
6
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Aparnas Health Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Kaival Gyan Chicago Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Shadhika Project

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…

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11
The Kailash Goyal Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Shraman Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American India Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Let's Talk Womxn (Fka Msedg - Mehak Sehar Educating Girls Globally Nfp). 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwest Community Hospital: $50,000 · HealthNorthwest Community Hospital+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUND…JAIN SOCIETY OF GREATER CHICAGO: $7,701 · OtherJAIN SOCI…INDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherINDIAN AM…LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500 · OtherGO PHILANTHROPIC CHARITABLE FUND: $500 · Other+4 more: $655 · Other+4 moreSANJAY SHAH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySANJAY SH…+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyNational Indo American Museum: $9,500 · Arts & CultureNational …Ragdale Foundation: $500 · Arts & CultureSAVE A MOTHER: $6,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $250 · InternationalLET'S TALK WOMXN (FKA MSEDG - MEHAK SEHAR EDUCATING GIRLS GLOBALLY NFP): $2,500 · EducationPURSUE SCHOLARS NFP: $2,500 · EducationAPNA GHAR INC: $1,900 · Housing & Shelter
Health$51,000Public Safety & Disaster$26,000Other$10,356Philanthropy$10,200Arts & Culture$10,000International$6,250Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$1,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Community Hospital: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANJAY SHAH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNational Indo American Museum: $9,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSAVE A MOTHER: $6,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLET'S TALK WOMXN (FKA MSEDG - MEHAK SEHAR EDUCATING GIRLS GLOBALLY NFP): $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPURSUE SCHOLARS NFP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAPNA GHAR INC: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Run: $200 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Gangwal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gangwal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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 20 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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