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The Gordhan Dass Foundation at a glance

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The Gordhan Dass Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$6kInternational$6kHuman Services$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kReligion$3kEmployment$500Community Improvement$500
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$501
Median grant
7
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINMAYA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$1,502
BAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIA$1,500
DHARMA CIVILIZATION FOUNDATION$1,000
BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER$1,000
HELPS INTL$750
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$750
HINDU TEMPLE OF KERN COUNTY$501
PUNJABI AMERICAN SENIOR CENTER$501
KERN COUNTY SHERRIFS MOUNTED POSSE$500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$500
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$500
KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND F$500
CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK$500
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 18%PUNJABI AMERICAN SENIOR CENTER: $501 → 18%BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 18%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 12 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$21k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CE
    CHINMAYA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • BP
    BAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
  • BS
    BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue -39%

Funded once

  • KC
    KERN COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS MUSTER ASS
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • UF
    UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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2
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
3
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
4
California Association of Health Facilities

Provide membership services such as educational conferences and advocacy to employees of skilled nursing facilities and associate members.

—
5
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
6
Sankara Eye Foundation Usa

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…

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
9
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
10
Kashmiri American Society for Healthcare Medical Education

The mission of the organization is to promote general health and prevent disease through high quality education, advocacy, research and training. the organization works to improve health and wellness of populations with limited access to…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Integrated Healthcare Association

Iha's mission is to bring the healthcare community together to solve industry-wide challenges that stand in the way of high-value care. as a non-profit industry association, we use objective data, our decades of expertise, and our unique…

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12
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Inc

The cns exists to enhance health and improve lives through the advancement of neurosurgical education and scientific exchange.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIA: $2,750 · OtherBAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIARONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1,750 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEHINDU TEMPLE OF KERN COUNTY: $1,501 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE OF KERN COUNTYKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND F: $1,250 · OtherKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,250 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKKERN COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS MUSTER ASS: $1,000 · OtherKERN COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS MUSTER ASSUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA: $500 · OtherNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 · HealthNational Kidney Found…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIE…American Heart Association Inc: $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…CHINMAYA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,752 · EducationCHINMAYA EDU…HELPS INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 · InternationalHELPS INTERN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,250 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesBAKERSFIELD…PUNJABI AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC: $501 · Human ServicesPUNJABI AME…DHARMA CIVILIZATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionKern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$10,001Health$4,500Education$2,752International$2,750Human Services$2,501Religion$1,000Community Improvement$500

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 budgetCHINMAYA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,752 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA: $500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Gordhan Dass Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordhan Dass 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, 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 Gordhan Dass Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gordhan Dass 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 17 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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