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The Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$5.4MHealth$4.6MHousing & Shelter$3.5MInternational$1.7MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$388kArts & Culture$112kCivil Rights$77kSocial Science$75kOther$8.4M
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES$1,500,000
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC$300,000
NEXT FOR AUTISM INC$300,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$250,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$150,000
WATER UNDERGROUND$48,000
MY POSSIBILITIES$30,000
NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
ABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS$25,000
THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION$25,000
MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE$25,000
PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL$20,000
NEXT FOR AUTISM INC$18,000
THE COLLEAGUES$17,000
NURTURING CHANGE$15,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%THE COLLEAGUES: $17k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERV ICES INC: $50k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HELPAGE INDIA INC: $3k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 11%SOLES4SOULS: $1k → 14%DESI RAINBOW PARENTS & ALLIES: $3k → 8%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERV ICES INC: $50k → 13%GX3 FOUNDATION: $6k → 5%THE COLLEAGUES: $2k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERV ICES INC: $50k → 13%GX3 FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%South Asian Council for Social Services: $10k → 13%GX3 FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%GX3 FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $25k → 14%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $11k → 14%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $400 → 14%SHOES FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1k → 14%SOWING SEEDS FOR LIFE: $750 → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 14%the friendship foundation: $8k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN L: $50k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN L: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $1k → 14%STRAIGHT UP ABILITIES INC: $9k → 14%STRAIGHT UP ABILITIES INC: $2k → 14%STRAIGHT UP ABILITIES INC: $2k → 14%SAAHAS FOR CAUSE: $3k → 14%STRAIGHT UP ABILITIES INC: $1k → 14%SKECHERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SKECHERS FOUNDATION: $120 → 14%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

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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 33 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$23M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+12%

Still filing today

94%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • NT
    NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +9%
  • SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +325%
  • AC
    ABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIKE STEELE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • VT
    VICTORY THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -30%

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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
3
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
4
Dress for Success San Francisco

Dress for success san francisco/san jose empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help them thrive in work and in life.

Civil Rights
5
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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8
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
9
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…

Education
10
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
11
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
12
Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is GX3 Foundation. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesLgbtq+ Community SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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%0/90
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,475

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

84 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. 84 of the 99 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
39/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $7,000,365 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN M…MIKE STEELE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherMIKE STEELE FOUNDATION+43 more — $618,446 · Other+43 moreTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION — $5,022,775 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATIO…+21 more — $370,170 · Human Services+21 moreNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION — $2,604,750 · HealthNATIONAL TUBEROUS SC…ABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS — $1,086,500 · HealthABILITY CONNECTION T…NEXT FOR AUTISM INC — $818,000 · HealthNEXT FOR AUTISM INC+11 more — $113,250 · HealthCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES — $3,500,000 · Housing & ShelterCORNERSTONE HOU…SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $1,264,000 · InternationalWater Underground — $173,000 · InternationalFACE Africa International Inc — $150,005 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 · International+3 more — $11,525 · InternationalSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $1,000,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $203,654 · Education+5 more — $41,010 · EducationCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $320,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC — $68,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · Philanthropy
Other$8,618,811Human Services$5,392,945Health$4,622,500Housing & Shelter$3,500,000International$1,658,530Education$1,244,664Philanthropy$388,250

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 FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION — $5,022,775 over 4y, 60% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES — $3,500,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION — $2,604,750 over 4y, 23% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $1,264,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS — $1,086,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC — $818,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $203,654 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWater Underground — $173,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $160,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFACE Africa International Inc — $150,005 over 3y, 39% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP SYSTEMS — $75,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetINDIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION — $74,402 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $68,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE — $36,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNURTURING CHANGE — $27,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS INDIAN LIONS CLUB CHARITY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME — $24,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $21,040 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC — $19,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGX3 FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetVICTORY THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAIGHT UP ABILITIES INC — $13,400 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMETROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceanographic Teaching Stations Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR THE DAY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDFW INDIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM — $9,080 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetSEVA DANCE COMPANY — $7,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC — $6,032 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $6,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrenceville United — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue — $5,327 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSKECHERS FOUNDATION — $5,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 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.

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.

California Community …Communities Foundatio…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Coserv Charitable Fou…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Skechers Foundation
California Community FoundationCA20× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Skechers 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 Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Find your warmest path to The Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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