· Private foundation
The Narayanan Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIR | $40,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIR | $15,000 |
| LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLACK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NUDGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SWATALEEM USA CORPORATION | $7,000 |
| WXLA INC | $5,000 |
| INCLUSIVE WORLD | $3,000 |
| BHARATA DANCE & ALLIED ARTS | $3,000 |
| WRITERS GROTTO | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- IMIIT MADRAS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +289%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +189%
- TNThe Nudge Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IIIndian Inst of Tech Madras via IIT Madras Fdnone grant, 2020 · $40k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue +46%
- DODISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +64%
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.
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,…
Us-india policy institute (usipi)undertaking policy research on diversity and inclusive developments in india and the usa. usipis vision for equal access to freedom,justice, and opportunity in india rests on its three pillars; research &…
Public education
The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…
To grant funds solely to the indian institute of technology delhi for charitable purposes to their endowment fund to support their instructional and research objectives.
Devoted to a greater appreciation of indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, supporting emerging filmmakers, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the indian diaspora.
To promote and develp south indian fine arts
Receives donation for funding & establishing scholarships,promoting reserch & development, ecxellence in education, teaching & other related tax exempt activities
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landscape Architecture Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bharata Dance & Allied Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 IIT MADRAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Nudge Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ART & PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SWATALEEM USA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WXLA INC ↗
- Who funds BHARATA DANCE & ALLIED ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WRITERS GROTTO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTS AND GAMES ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE WORLD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds SRI KAMAKSHI COMMUNITY CENTER 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · 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 organization 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.
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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