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The Krishnapillai & Puvaneswary Thavarajah Family Foundation at a glance

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The Krishnapillai & Puvaneswary Thavarajah Family 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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

International$21kHealth$19kEducation$16kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$9kYouth Development$4kSocial Science$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k64 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$300
Median grant
21
States reached
$158k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$24,323
KIDS ON THE GO$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$2,500
CORWELL HEALTH$2,000
MANITHA NEYAM TRUST INC$2,000
CHILDREN HUNGRY RELIEF FUND$1,591
Individual grant recipient$1,500
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,300
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,300
AID FOR STARVING CHILDREN$1,250
FEED THE CHILDREN$1,200
DANA FABER INSTITUTE$1,000
AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%KIDS ON THE GO: $5k → 10%THE SEEING EYE: $100 → 4%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $500 → 26%EDUCATE & FEED FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 8%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 27 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
14

Total granted

$146k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DC
    DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +8%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • EA
    Educate and Feed Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • VC
    VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • CH
    COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Helen Keller International

Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…

International
5
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
6
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
7
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
8
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
9
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

43 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. 43 of the 84 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
18/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $90,198 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+45 more: $32,992 · Other+45 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $3,500 · InternationalAMERICAN LEPR…Mercy Ships International: $2,000 · InternationalMercy Ships I…MANITHA NEYAM TRUST INC: $2,000 · InternationalMANITHA NEYAM…AID FOR STARVING CHILDREN: $1,750 · InternationalAID FOR STARV…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,500 · InternationalFEED THE CHIL…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,100 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · International+7 more: $1,900 · International+7 moreDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationDETROIT C…+1 more: $500 · EducationKIDS ON THE GO: $5,000 · Human ServicesEducate and Feed Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $200 · Health+2 more: $225 · HealthFeeding America: $1,550 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $500 · Food & NutritionLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $1,010 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $600 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $200 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $100 · Animals
Other$123,190International$22,250Education$15,500Human Services$9,850Health$5,575Food & Nutrition$2,050Philanthropy$1,510Animals$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 budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANITHA NEYAM TRUST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAID FOR STARVING CHILDREN: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $1,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABANDONED CHILDRENS FUND: $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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Krishnapillai & Puvaneswary Thavarajah Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Krishnapillai & Puvaneswary Thavarajah Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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.
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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.

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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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