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The Indu Foundation

Its FY2024 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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$35kScience & Tech$22kEducation$17kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PIKE SCHOOL$3,500
DESAI FOUNDATION$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$2,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%THE PIKE SCHOOL: $5k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $3k → 12%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $5k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%THE PIKE SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $3k → 12%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%THE PIKE SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 12%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $2k → 8%THE PIKE SCHOOL: $3k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $2k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $2k → 8%THE PIKE SCHOOL: $3k → 10%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%DESAI FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%DESAI FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3k → 16%DESAI FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $2k → 16%THE DESAI FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%PROJECT BREAD: $1k → 16%THE DESAI FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%THE DESAI FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$83k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$83k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+188%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TP
    THE PIKE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +33%
  • DF
    DESAI FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +268%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +41%
  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +188%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PIKE SCHOOL INC — $17,000 · OtherTHE PIKE SCHOOL INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $11,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $4,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITALST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH — $2,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCHMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $21,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCEST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $9,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S R…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCI…CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $2,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INST…DESAI FOUNDATION — $14,500 · PhilanthropyDESAI FOUNDATIONPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$35,500Arts & Culture$21,500Health$16,000Philanthropy$14,500Food & Nutrition$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 budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIKE SCHOOL INC — $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
  • Who funds THE PIKE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds DESAI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Indu 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Museum of Science4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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