Connecticut · Private foundation
The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan 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.
- $303k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $303k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $404k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $367k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $327k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $301k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $305k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $238k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $336k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Urban Food Initiative Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Merit America | $155,700 | 3 | 0% |
| The Society of St Andrew Inc | $151,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Strive International Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $112,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Year Up Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Vocational & Career Counseling Service | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Shalom Farmsinc | $72,000 | 7 | 1% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $60,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($507k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Newman's Own Foundation · Share Our Strength · Clif Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Point32health Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation
- How much does The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation give?
- The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $303,084 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (45%), Employment (20%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Urban Food Initiative Inc ($175k), Merit America ($156k), The Society of St Andrew Inc ($151k).
- Does The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newman's Own Foundation, Share Our Strength, Clif Family Foundation.
- Where is The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation based?
- The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation is based in CT.
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