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The Narula 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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$482kEducation$217kArts & Culture$179kFood & Nutrition$80kInternational$75kCivil Rights$73kPhilanthropy$51kHuman Services$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC)$85,000
Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation$50,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering$25,000
Community Food Bank of NJ$15,000
Robin Hood Foundation$10,000
Montclair Film Festival$7,500
Ekal Vidyalya Foundation$7,500
Paper Mill Playhouse$5,000
University of Michigan$5,000
Montclair Ambulance$5,000
Montclair Art Museum$5,000
Luna Stage$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art$5,000
Wounded Warrior Project$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Soles 4 Souls: $1k → 14%Soles 4 Souls: $500 → 14%Human Needs Food Pantry: $1k → 15%Human Needs Food Pantry: $1k → 15%Human Needs Food Pantry: $1k → 15%Wounded Warrior Project: $10k → 17%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 17%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 17%Covenant House: $2k → 17%Covenant House: $2k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MI
NY
SD
IA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 61 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
25

Total granted

$1.2M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

52%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
    4× · 2017–2020 · $135k · revenue +211%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +100%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • HF
    HUMC Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • W
    WNYCWQXRNJPRNYPR
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

1
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsSubstance Abuse TreatmentVolunteer Fire DepartmentsCommunity Health CentersChild and Family ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Environmental Advocacy Orga…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPregnancy Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Affordable Housing Developm…South Asian Cultural and Sp…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%51%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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.

04the grantee network

44 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC — $130,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCCooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC) — $119,500 · OtherCooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC)HMH Foundation — $65,000 · OtherHMH FoundationEkal Vidyalya Foundation — $53,125 · OtherEkal Vidyalya FoundationMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — $49,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterSBMC - Saint Barnabas Medical Center — $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $32,000 · Other+55 more — $370,125 · Other+55 moreTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $135,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK O…LUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $22,500 · EducationLUNA STAGE COM…MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EducationMONTCLAIR KIMB…+2 more — $7,250 · EducationPaper Mill Playhouse — $41,500 · Arts & CultureMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC — $27,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $14,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $13,500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $19,190 · InternationalSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA — $10,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $6,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,500 · International+4 more — $3,250 · InternationalCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $55,000 · Food & NutritionSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $13,000 · HealthVERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC — $12,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC — $7,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $6,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,500 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $49,860 · Philanthropy+1 more — $525 · Philanthropy
Other$851,250Education$177,250Arts & Culture$96,500International$61,940Food & Nutrition$55,000Health$53,000Philanthropy$50,385

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $135,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $49,860 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse — $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $26,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC — $22,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPROINSPIRE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $19,190 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $17,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC — $12,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA — $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ORANGE PBA LOCAL #25 INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILDHOOD FOR CHILDREN INC — $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare Association Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds LUNA STAGE COMPANY INC
  • Who funds PROINSPIRE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC
  • Who funds SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA
  • Who funds SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER

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 Express FoundationNY17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · Partners for Health Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc

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 Narula 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum11% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse9% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Narula Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Narula 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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