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The Patel 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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$587kEducation$121kHuman Services$51kInternational$26kReligion$16kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$9kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$824k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$51,000
IIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FUND$41,500
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$15,000
BAY AREA VAISHNAVA YOUTH PARIVAR$5,001
HUMAN SERVICE FOUNDATION$5,001
PRATHAM$5,000
CALIFORNIA VIPASSANA CENTER$2,501
COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY$1,000
A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD$1,000
KQED$500
Individual grant recipient$500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $250 → 14%SHREEMAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $1k → 8%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $1k → 8%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $1k → 8%A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $1k → 8%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
DC
TX

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$844k · 17 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$844k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+16%

Still filing today

53%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • HS
    Human Service Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +159%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +94%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • A
    AAPI
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SC
    SHREEMAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ATTN NITIN PAREKH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -18%

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
Sai Spiritual Foundation

Help establish unity of faith and welcome all spiritual seekers of all religions; realize the Inherent Divinity within as per Sathya SaiBaba

Religion
2
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
3
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
5
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
6
Vedic Sadhana Foundation

Promoting well being of individuals through the education and assistance of mindful living, meditation, and education of vedic and indian practices.

Education
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Shiv Nadar Foundation

Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…

Education
9
Sai Global Mission

Sai Global Mission (SGM) is a Non-Profit Organization focused on Societal advancement initiatives for helping rural communities and offering free services to the underserved in the areas of healthcare, education, nutrition and rural care…

International
10
Iisc Foundation

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…

Education
11
Dasra

Dasra is catalyzing the strategic philanthropy movement to ensure that a billion lives can thrive with dignity and equity. dasra works with philanthropists, families, and corporate foundations to support them in amplifying their giving…

International
12
Akanksha Education Fund Inc

To support educational opportunities for underserved children in india, and raising support for and awareness of such activities in the united states.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sankara Eye Foundation Usa and the most unlike its peers is Us Giving to Maher. 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

20 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. 20 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $586,001 · OtherMUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONIIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FUND — $101,500 · OtherIIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FUNDHuman Service Foundation — $38,003 · OtherPRATHAM — $35,001 · Other+17 more — $55,927 · Other+17 moreDIRECT RELIEF — $17,000 · InternationalAsante Africa Foundation Inc — $1,500 · International+1 more — $501 · InternationalUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationNorthern California Vipassana Center — $2,501 · Education+1 more — $50 · EducationCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesSHREEMAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ATTN NITIN PAREKH — $5,000 · Human ServicesA FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION — $6,000 · Civil RightsSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION — $5,502 · ReligionKQED INC — $5,030 · Arts & Culture
Other$816,432International$19,001Education$17,551Human Services$17,250Civil Rights$6,000Religion$5,502Arts & Culture$5,030

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHuman Service Foundation — $38,003 over 9y, 13% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION — $5,502 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC — $5,030 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHREEMAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ATTN NITIN PAREKH — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSILICON VALLEY FACES — $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetA FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY — $3,025 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern California Vipassana Center — $2,501 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAsante Africa Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS GIVING TO MAHER — $501 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $50 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 Human Service Foundation
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC
  • Who funds INDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
  • Who funds SAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds SHREEMAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ATTN NITIN PAREKH
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY FACES
  • Who funds A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds Northern California Vipassana Center
  • Who funds Asante Africa Foundation Inc
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
  • Who funds US GIVING TO MAHER
  • Who funds Camp Kesem National
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION 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.

Bright Funds FoundationCA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Patel 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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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 34 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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