How much did The Narayanan Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$199kHuman Services$145kRecreation & Sports$129kPhilanthropy$100kEnvironment$65kArts & Culture$27kInternational$24kCommunity Improvement$10kReligion$3kOther$239k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

—

2020

environmentalmadrasdesignpratham

2021

—

2022

—

2023

science

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $32k
$10k–50k9 grants · $187k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE$34,800
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH$25,000
ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIR$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC$22,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$20,000
MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION INC$15,000
SWATALEEM USA CORPORATION$10,000
BLACK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NETWORK$10,000
NUDGE FOUNDATION$8,000
CARE EARTH$8,000
WXLA INC$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE$3,000
BHARATA DANCE & ALLIED ARTS$3,000
WRITERS GROTTO$2,500

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$796k · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$796k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+620%

Still filing today

69%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

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IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +179%
PU
PRATHAM USA
5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +20%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +81%

Funded once

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Indian Inst of Tech Madras via IIT Madras Fdn
one grant, 2020 · $40k
DO
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE
one grant, 2020 · $10k
AS
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT LIBR AND E
one grant, 2020 · $7k

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.

Ucla Foundation

The mission of the ucla foundation is to actively promote philanthropy and manage donated resources for the advancement of ucla.

Education

Pan Iit Alumni Foundation Inc

The foundation will support charitable objectives including by funding international initiatives in education, Skill and entrepreneurship development, poverty relief, and technology-led interventions for impact, leveraging alumni from all…

International

Iit Hyderabad Foundation

Fund Education and Research in IIT Hyderabad, India

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

The specific purposes for which the Foundation is organized are to fund and promote overall betterment of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and its students, faculty and alumni body.

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.

Education

The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

Iit (Bhu) Foundation Inc

The foundation is a u.s. "friends of" entity formed by individuals who wish to advance and support the work of the indian institute of technology (banaras hindu university, "iit (bhu)"), a public technical and research university located…

Education

Uc San Diego Foundation

To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.

Education

Nalanda 20

Improve excellence and access in higher education. Current focus is on India. Thus, Nalanda 2.0's current focus is to make India's higher education system world-class by building a world-class multidisciplinary research university,…

Education

International Tamil Language Foundation

To promote cross cultural benefits between English speaking and Tamil speaking people of the world in the fields of education literature science and art. To encourage educational scientific and literary activities in the Tamil language To…

Arts & Culture

University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

Shraman Foundation

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$276,000Education$199,000Human Services$145,000Recreation & Sports$128,800Philanthropy$100,000Environment$65,000Arts & Culture$26,500

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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation The Narayanan Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLACK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NETWORK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 852339912 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLACK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NETWORK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Narayanan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Narayanan Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Narayanan Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Narayanan Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Narayanan Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Narayanan Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph