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The Pushpa & Val Sapra 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.

$133k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$100k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Huntsville, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $133k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
10
’19
8
’20
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’21
8
’22
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’23
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’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$287kEducation$152kPhilanthropy$101kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$5kReligion$5kInternational$5kEnvironment$950Other$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$267k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANDOLPH SCHOOL$100,000
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUNDING JOY$10,000
THE LOVETT SCHOOL$8,000
HEALS INC$1,500
MOFFITT FOUNDATION$1,000
HCNA$1,000
TRINITY SCHOOL$1,000
LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA$300
EMORY UNIVERSITY$250
HOPE AND HELPING HANDS$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUNDING JOY: $10k → 12%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $202 → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $2k → 14%WEDC FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
PA
MO
MD
KS
TN
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 20 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$372k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+37%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RS
    RANDOLPH SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +63%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • TL
    THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • AK
    AMI KIDS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • V
    VANDERBILT
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • KC
    KATE'S CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +345%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech
4
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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7
Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
8
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Hearts for Hearing Foundation

Hearts for hearing advocates for, educates about, and innovatively provides comprehensive, life-changing hearing healthcare for all ages.

Human Services
11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sikh Study Circle. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMILE FOUNDATION: $192,363 · OtherSMILE FOUNDATIONHCNA: $12,050 · Other+21 more: $29,650 · Other+21 moreRANDOLPH SCHOOL: $105,750 · EducationRANDOLPH SCHOOLTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $16,025 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL INCTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $14,269 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INCTHE SCHENCK SCHOOL: $5,250 · Education+3 more: $570 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Greater Huntsville: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation…+1 more: $450 · PhilanthropyTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $68,177 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE…+3 more: $3,500 · HealthSOUNDING JOY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAshaKiran Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $702 · Human ServicesTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $600 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $250 · Environment
Other$234,063Education$141,864Philanthropy$100,450Health$71,677Human Services$20,202Environment$850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRANDOLPH SCHOOL: $105,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $68,177 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $16,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $14,269 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDING JOY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAshaKiran Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHENCK SCHOOL: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HELPING HANDS INC: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope for Justice Inc: $202 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDING JOY INC ↗
  • Who funds AshaKiran Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIKH STUDY CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds RUSSEL HILL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The WEDC Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Justice Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Aum Capital Group Charitable Foundation · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pushpa & Val Sapra Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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