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Ghadar 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.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$337k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$160kInternational$76kArts & Culture$28kHealth$20kCivil Rights$15kScience & Tech$5kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $337k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$337,364
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$25,000
ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD NORTH AMERICAN OFFICE$10,000
COSMOS CLUB$5,000
SCRIPP COLLEGE$5,000
MIT$5,000
HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM AND GARDENS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MIT: $5k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $41k → 16%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $53k → 16%SCRIPP COLLEGE: $16k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD NORTH AMERICAN OFFICE: $10k → 17%ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL BETA CLUB: $1k → 15%AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $15k → 14%CHI PHI FRATERNITY: $1k → 13%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $509k → 3%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%SCRIPP COLLEGE: $10k → 14%GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $26k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $337k → 3%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $250 → 16%SCRIPP COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $25k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $97k → 3%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $25k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $68k → 3%COSMOS CLUB: $5k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $57k → 3%COSMOS CLUB FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $29k → 3%HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $1k → 14%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $28k → 3%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $8k → 3%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $3k → 3%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $3k → 3%DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $2k → 3%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
SC
DC
GA

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DA
    DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $78k
  • CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $76k · revenue -39%

Funded once

  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $41k
  • S
    SMITHSONIAN
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • AI
    AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +44%

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
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
3
Sigma Xi the Scientific Research Honor Society Inc

To enhance the health of the research enterprise, foster integrity in science and engineering and promote the public's understanding of science for the purpose of improving the human condition.

4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
6
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers

SPIE is an international nonprofit technical society dedicated to advancing scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through its meetings, education programs and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cosmos Club and the most unlike its peers is Roper St Francis 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND — $1,139,862 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUNDS - SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $78,090 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY+8 more — $93,385 · Other+8 moreCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $75,772 · InternationalScripps College — $31,100 · EducationRoper St Francis Foundation — $20,000 · HealthCOSMOS CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS — $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL HONORARY BETA CLUB — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,311,337International$75,772Education$31,100Health$20,000Arts & Culture$6,000Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $75,772 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College — $31,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOSMOS CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOSMOS CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNATIONAL HONORARY BETA CLUB — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
  • Who funds Scripps College
  • Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
  • Who funds COSMOS CLUB
  • Who funds COSMOS CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL HONORARY BETA CLUB
  • Who funds HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ghadar 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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