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The Kundu Foundation Inc

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.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$49kEducation$49kFood & Nutrition$31kHealth$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kScience & Tech$4kInternational$3kCrime & Legal$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $17k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$240
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASTI$58,820
Greater Boston Food Bank$8,000
Concord Academy$5,000
Princeton University$1,992
New York University$1,500
WBUR$240
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$105
Pan-Mass Challenge$103
Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation$100
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$52
Special Olympics Massachusetts$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation: $104 → 7%All Hands and Hearts: $2k → 8%Greater Boston Food Bank: $8k → 16%Sheows Cares Foundation: $250 → 17%American Heart Assoc: $250 → 14%Pratham USA: $1k → 16%Center for Disease Dynamics Economics & Policy: $1k → 14%Sandy Hook Promise: $500 → 9%GCANA Seva Project Chandra: $100 → 9%American Red Cross: $2k → 12%Princeton University: $10k → 11%Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation: $100 → 7%Greater Boston Food Bank: $6k → 16%UNICEF USA: $2k → 17%Sandy Hook Promise: $100 → 9%Princeton University: $2k → 11%Pan-Mass Challenge: $123 → 7%Concord Academy: $8k → 8%Greater Boston Food Bank: $6k → 16%American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $105 → 17%Sandy Hook Promise: $100 → 9%Princeton University: $2k → 11%Pan-Mass Challenge: $120 → 7%Concord Academy: $7k → 8%Greater Boston Food Bank: $5k → 16%Pratham: $1k → 17%Princeton University: $2k → 11%Pan-Mass Challenge: $103 → 7%Concord Academy: $6k → 8%Greater Boston Food Bank: $5k → 16%New York University: $2k → 17%Princeton University: $1k → 11%Pan-Mass Challenge: $103 → 7%Concord Academy: $5k → 8%Greater Boston Food Bank: $1k → 16%Pan-Mass Challenge: $102 → 7%Concord Academy: $2k → 8%WBUR: $763 → 16%Pan-Mass Challenge: $102 → 7%MIT: $1k → 8%WBUR: $240 → 16%MIT: $1k → 8%WBUR: $240 → 16%MIT: $100 → 8%WBUR: $210 → 16%ACLU of MA: $250 → 16%Desai Foundation: $1k → 8%Harvard: $1k → 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

NH
WA
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 12 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$464k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+53%

Still filing today

58%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechInternationalPublic 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

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +1%
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +52%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +1%
  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +80%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
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
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
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
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sheows Cares Foundation Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASTI: $329,826 · OtherASTIGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $31,035 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCASTI Chak Kumar Milan Sangha - Antodaya Ananth Ashram - Orphanage: $28,200 · OtherASTI Chak Kumar Milan Sangha - Antodaya Ananth Ashram - OrphanageASTI Chak Kumar Milan Sangha - Khokon Khukur Ashram: $20,985 · Other+18 more: $12,915 · OtherCONCORD ACADEMY: $27,500 · EducationCONCORD ACA…The Trustees of Princeton University: $17,068 · EducationThe Trustee…+3 more: $2,730 · Education+3 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,091 · InternationalPRATHAM USA: $1,041 · PhilanthropyDESAI FOUNDATION: $1,021 · PhilanthropyALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $2,015 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR DISEASE DYNAMICS ECONOMICS & POLICY INC: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $105 · HealthVISION-AID INCORPORATED: $100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $52 · HealthSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $700 · Crime & Legal
Other$422,961Education$47,298International$2,091Philanthropy$2,062Public Safety & Disaster$2,015Health$1,507Crime & Legal$700

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 budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $31,035 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $17,068 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,091 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $2,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,473 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $1,041 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESAI FOUNDATION: $1,021 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISEASE DYNAMICS ECONOMICS & POLICY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $653 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHEOWS CARES FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVERE AND SON HERITAGE TRUST CORPORATION: $204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION-AID INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe FUSE Preschool Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kundu Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kundu Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Center for Disease Dynamics Economics & Policy Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Revere and Son Heritage Trust Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to The Kundu Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kundu Foundation Inc 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 37 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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