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The Mahatma - Dharma Foundation at a glance

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The Mahatma - Dharma Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$167kHealth$124kInternational$28kReligion$3k
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CH$5,000
WILLS EYE FOUNDATION$5,000
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION$5,000
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY$5,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$5,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$5,000
IRVING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$3,000
HOCKADAY SCHOOL$3,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%AKSHYA PATRA: $3k → 14%SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIO: $3k → 14%UNICEF USA: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TX SW MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%UNICEF USA: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TX SW MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%THE PENN FUND: $3k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TX SW MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%IRVING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRATHAM USA: $3k → 16%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 17%IRVING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PRATHAM USA: $3k → 16%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 17%IRVING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%RICE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%RICE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%RICE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%RICE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%RICE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%RICE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $5k → 16%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CH: $5k → 14%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CH: $5k → 14%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CH: $5k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$308k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+65%

Still filing today

53%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +104%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +67%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SE
    SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +65%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • DH
    DFW HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
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
3
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
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
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 William Marsh Rice University. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITYTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CH: $21,000 · OtherTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHCOLORADO SCHOOL 1 MINES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOOL 1 MINES FOUNDATIONPURDUE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherPURDUE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TX SW MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TX SW MEDICAL CENTERTHE PENN FUND: $11,500 · OtherTHE PENN FUNDUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER+5 more: $14,500 · Other+5 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University: $35,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCBaylor College of Medicine: $30,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOLCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATIONMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,000 · InternationalUNITED ST…SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · InternationalSURGICAL …PRATHAM USA: $21,000 · PhilanthropyIrving Healthcare Foundation: $19,000 · Health
Other$133,000Education$120,000International$28,000Philanthropy$21,000Health$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIrving Healthcare Foundation: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 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 William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds Irving Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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 Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mahatma - Dharma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mahatma - Dharma 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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