California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $824k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Patel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $128k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $120k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $25k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $115k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $174k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $45k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $182k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $59k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Service Foundation | $38,003 | 9 | 13% |
| Direct Relief | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indians for Collective Action | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Foundation | $5,502 | 3 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $5,030 | 7 | 0% |
| Shreemay Community Services Inc Attn Nitin Parekh | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Silicon Valley Faces | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| A Future for Every Child | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Service Foundation | $38,003 | 9 | 13% |
| Direct Relief | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indians for Collective Action | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Foundation | $5,502 | 3 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $5,030 | 7 | 0% |
| Shreemay Community Services Inc Attn Nitin Parekh | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Silicon Valley Faces | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| A Future for Every Child | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Tracy | $3,025 | 3 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $2,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Northern California Vipassana Center | $2,501 | 1 | 0% |
| Asante Africa Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Help for Migraine | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| US Giving to Maher | $501 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Kesem National | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($765k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Patel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Patel Family Foundation
- How much does The Patel Family Foundation give?
- The Patel Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $128,003 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Patel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Education (14%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Patel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Human Service Foundation ($38k), Direct Relief ($17k), Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($15k).
- Does The Patel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Patel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Patel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bright Funds Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Patel Family Foundation based?
- The Patel Family Foundation is based in CA.
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