· Private foundation
The Namaste 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PP Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana Kentucky | $75,000 |
| Boulder Valley Health Center | $75,000 |
| United Way of Bartholomew County | $50,000 |
| Sycamore Land Trust | $40,000 |
| Turning Point | $40,000 |
| Pacific Crest Trail Association | $40,000 |
| The Cycle Effect | $35,000 |
| Wildlife Conservation Network | $30,000 |
| Broomfield Coummunity Foundation | $25,000 |
| Tibet Fund | $25,000 |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $22,500 |
| Broomfield FISH | $18,000 |
| Conservation Law Center (Indiana University) | $17,000 |
| Colorado Water Trust | $17,000 |
| Advocates For Children | $17,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SLSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +54%
- TCThe Cycle Effect6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +53%
- PCPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood of South Central Indianaone grant, 2020 · $30k
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Cycle Effect ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds C I R C L E ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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.
Open a dossier: The Kirr Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Centra Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Namaste Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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