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The Namaste Foundation at a glance

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The Namaste Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$67k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$26kArts & Culture$20kSocial Science$11kHealth$10kAnimals$8kEmployment$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHousing & Shelter$250Other$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
U PENN$15,000
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC$10,000
PHOENIX THEATRE INC$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS$7,777
GOODWILL FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA$3,000
ACHIEVING THE DREAM$1,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $100 → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBOROOD SERVICES: $50 → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $50 → 16%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

IL
NY
SD
IN
PA
VA
MD
DC
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 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
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
4
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
5
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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6
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
7
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
11
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
12
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieving the Dream Inc; the most unlike its peers is Goodwill Legacy Group 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

U PENN: $15,000 · OtherU PENNINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INCACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $1,000 · Other+11 more: $950 · OtherINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETYPHOENIX THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX THEATRE INCAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $10,460 · Social ScienceAMERICAN POLIT…DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC: $10,000 · HealthDYSLEXIA INSTI…+2 more: $200 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $7,777 · AnimalsHUMANE SOC…GOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EmploymentNorthwestern University: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$26,950Arts & Culture$20,000Social Science$10,460Health$10,200Animals$7,777Employment$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

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 budgetAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $10,460 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $7,777 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORNING LIGHT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENNESARET FREE CLINIC INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $50 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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…The Indianapolis Foun…Lumina Foundation for…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncEugene & Marilyn Glic…Hoover Family Foundat…Eli Lilly and Company…Christel DeHaan Famil…Second Helpings IncRichard M Fairbanks F…United Way of Central…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · Eli Lilly and Company Foundation · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Second Helpings Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc

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 Namaste Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Namaste 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 →median 0%
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to The Namaste Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Namaste 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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