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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.

$626k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$685kHealth$429kPhilanthropy$349kInternational$261kYouth Development$197kEducation$195kPublic Benefit$175kRecreation & Sports$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $394k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$17,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PP Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana Kentucky$75,000
Boulder Valley Health Center$75,000
United Way of Bartholomew County$50,000
Turning Point$40,000
Sycamore Land Trust$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
Advocates For Children$17,000
Colorado Water Trust$17,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Broomfield FISH: $18k → 5%Broomfield FISH: $15k → 5%Broomfield FISH: $15k → 5%Broomfield FISH: $10k → 5%Broomfield FISH: $8k → 5%Broomfield FISH: $4k → 5%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
VA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 37 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
8

Total granted

$2.8M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+28%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SL
    SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +54%
  • TC
    The Cycle Effect
    6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +53%
  • PC
    PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of South Central Indiana
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • I
    IUPUC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development
6
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
World Resources Institute

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…

International
10
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
11
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
12
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 50 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PP Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana Kentucky: $250,600 · OtherPP Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana KentuckyBoulder Valley Women's Health: $165,000 · OtherBoulder Valley Women's HealthPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · OtherPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATIONBoulder Valley Health Center: $93,000 · OtherBoulder Valley Health CenterBroomfield Coummunity Foundation: $90,000 · OtherBroomfield Coummunity FoundationCASA- Advocates for Children: $61,000 · OtherGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $95,000 · OtherGREENHOUSE SCHOLARSTurning Point Inc: $110,500 · OtherTurning Point IncTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC: $82,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC+21 more: $355,400 · Other+21 moreSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $210,000 · EnvironmentSYCAMORE LAND TRUST IN…THE ORION SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SOCIETY INCCOLORADO WATER TRUST: $82,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO WATER TRUSTHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $62,500 · EnvironmentHoosier Environmental …GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $60,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUN…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERV…+3 more: $33,000 · Environment+3 moreUNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $215,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $58,500 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE F…Tibet Fund Inc: $85,500 · InternationalTibet Fun…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $85,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $65,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $14,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking: $95,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $70,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesThe Cycle Effect: $156,000 · Recreation & SportsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $125,000 · Animals
Other$1,452,500Environment$597,500Philanthropy$273,500International$249,500Human Services$168,000Recreation & Sports$156,000Animals$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $215,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $210,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $156,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $110,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $95,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking: $95,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $85,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC: $82,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCOLORADO WATER TRUST: $82,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $62,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $58,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM WORLD OF WONDER: $47,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC: $22,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetC I R C L E: $17,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking ↗
  • 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 C I R C L E ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
  • Who funds Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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 Kirr Foundation I…Elizabeth Ruddick Nug…Clarence E Custer and…The Ayco Charitable F…Centra Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Carl Marshall Reeves …Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Central Indiana Commu…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
The Kirr Foundation IncIN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Namaste Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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
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 Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Namaste Foundation Inc 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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