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The Harendra S Gandhi Foundation at a glance

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The Harendra S Gandhi 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$54kEducation$24kScience & Tech$7kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$5kHealth$4kArts & Culture$4kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIM FOR SEVA$10,000
MAI FAMILY SERVICES$2,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AIM FOR SEVA: $10k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $3k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $3k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $3k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 8 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$78k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPublic 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

  • AI
    ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +99%
  • EV
    EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA
    5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +41%
  • MF
    MAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL
    3× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SAEFOOD SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MOTOR CITY CHURCH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Seva Foundation

Seva foundation partners worldwide to create self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. our vision is a world free of avoidable blindness.

International
2
American Inst of Indian Studies

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about india and the promotion of intellectual engagement with india in american universities by providing research fellowship support, training in indian languages, knowledge of indian culture, and…

Social Science
3
Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in such activity as may be necessary, appropriate or otherwise helpful to support, provide assistance to or perform functions of aravind eye hospital and postgraduate institute of ophthamology…

Health
4
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
5
Blind Foundation for India

The Blind Foundation for India(BFI)Charter is to prevent and cure blindness and rehabilitate permanently blind people in India. BFI provides support for free cataract operations, Braille kits, Mobile Vans, Eye Hospital equipments, and…

International
6
The Desai Foundation
Education
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
Indiaspora

Transforming the success of the indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide.

Human Services
9
India Foundation

Healthcare and education for the needy

Human Services
10
Fajr Scientific

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

Science & Tech
11
Friends of Teach for India Inc

Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.

Education
12
The Asia Foundation

The asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American India Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mai Family Services Sashital. 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 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $41,500 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC+2 more: $1,477 · Human ServicesEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $20,500 · InternationalEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF US…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY…INTERNATIONAL SAEFOOD SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SAEFOOD SUSTAI…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEER…FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $3,300 · OtherFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEU…FOUNDATION FOR MOTOR CITY CHURCH COLLEGE: $3,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MOTOR CITY CH…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME: $1,500 · OtherNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF F…UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MICHIGAN RADIO: $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MIC…VALLABH YOUTH ORGANIZATION USA: $1,500 · OtherVALLABH YOUTH ORGANIZATION U…GEETMALA: $1,300 · OtherTREASURY FOR THE FUTURE: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherJAMES DANIELS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2,780 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $1,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100 · HealthTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$42,977International$30,500Other$27,600Arts & Culture$7,880Health$1,100Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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 budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $41,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL: $5,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $3,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $2,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSewa International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $477 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $100 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 ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC ↗
  • Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MAI FAMILY SERVICES SASHITAL ↗
  • Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Harendra S Gandhi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harendra S Gandhi 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%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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 24 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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