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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$1.2MEmployment$536kHuman Services$273kPhilanthropy$220kEducation$75kCommunity Improvement$50kReligion$47kHousing & Shelter$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIT AMERICA$55,700
YEAR UP UNITED$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SINGAPORE$37,384
STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC$25,000
HOT BREAD KITCHEN$20,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE$20,000
THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC$20,000
SHALOM FARMS INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FARM FRESH RI$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%UNITED METHODIST URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%SHALOM FARMS INC: $15k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS INC: $10k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS INC: $10k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS INC: $10k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS INC: $10k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS INC: $10k → 9%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%SHALOM FARMS: $7k → 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%MERIT AMERICA: $56k → 14%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $20k → 17%MERIT AMERICA: $50k → 14%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $20k → 17%MERIT AMERICA: $50k → 14%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $5k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $5k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $8k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $3k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $5k → 17%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $7k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 58 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
36

Total granted

$2.4M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

74%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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

  • TU
    THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +203%
  • MA
    MERIT AMERICA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $156k · revenue +42%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +97%
  • SE
    SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANSPROPELLER A FORCE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • PF
    Partnership for a Healthier America Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -26%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
2
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
5
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition
7
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
11
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leap Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local Food System Organizat…United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/74
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,491

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

71 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
52/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $80,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING …Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSURVIVAL CENTERS INC AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER — $41,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SINGAPORE — $37,384 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $36,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTERINC FEEDING WESTCHESTER — $35,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NEW ORLEANS — $34,000 · Other+36 more — $428,700 · Other+36 moreTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $175,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INCTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $151,100 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INCAlliance to End Hunger — $50,000 · Food & NutritionAlliance to End HungerBrighter Bites Inc — $38,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $31,500 · Food & NutritionEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC — $29,000 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $28,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUST — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+12 more — $160,725 · Food & Nutrition+12 moreMERIT AMERICA — $155,700 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERICAHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $112,500 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHEN L…SHALOM FARMSINC — $72,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $41,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUN…FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLAN…NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON SURVIVA…+4 more — $27,000 · Human Services+4 moreYEAR UP INC — $100,000 · EducationYEAR UP I…Found in Translation Inc — $48,000 · EducationFound in …LEAP INC — $25,000 · EducationLEAP INCCAMPUS COMPACT — $16,800 · EducationCAMPUS CO…NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationFAMILY AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $11,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $60,500 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC — $32,500 · PhilanthropySOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropySTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $125,000 · EmploymentFARESTART — $34,000 · EmploymentWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · EnvironmentUrban Harvest Inc — $8,000 · Environment
Other$922,584Food & Nutrition$713,325Human Services$480,200Education$220,800Philanthropy$203,000Employment$159,000Environment$43,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $175,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMERIT AMERICA — $155,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $151,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $112,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $72,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $60,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFound in Translation Inc — $48,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $41,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc — $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $37,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFARESTART — $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC — $29,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $28,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE — $26,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPartnership for a Healthier America Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $23,775 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKATIE'S KROPS — $20,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetFEEDING KENTUCKY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLA SOUPE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC — $17,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCAMPUS COMPACT — $16,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RESCUE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMPLEHARVESTORG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Alliance to End Hunger ↗
  • Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FARESTART ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for a Healthier America Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Newman's Own Foundati…Share Our StrengthClif Family FoundationFairfield County's Co…Carlson Family Founda…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Claneil Foundation IncHarvard Pilgrim Healt…William Caspar Graust…Point32health Foundat…Boston Foundation IncFidelity Foundation
Newman's Own FoundationCT27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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