· Private foundation
The Samarth 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $10,000 |
| PRATHAM USA | $10,000 |
| POLICY IMPACT | $10,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC | $5,000 |
| WORLD KITCHEN CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| IPAS | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $4,000 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID INC | $1,900 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Samarth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CICONTINA IMPACT5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue ×30
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +114%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- ASARYA SAMAJ OF MICHIGAN - ASOMone grant, 2019 · $51k
- FHFREEDOM HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +7%
- AOART OF LIVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Pratham international was established to support learning innovations for children and youth in contexts across the globe. the organization facilitates the adaptation and dissemination of proven, scalable solutions, such as the…
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.
Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…
Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessible for global communities.
The ilf's mission is to make justice a reality for poor people by fighting to guarantee high-quality legal representation for everyone arrested or detained. around the world, we provide criminal defense services and build sustainable,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom House and the most unlike its peers is Butimar Productions. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CONTINA IMPACT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ART OF LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Butimar Productions ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds MARICI ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cardea Center for Women Institute ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLBOX PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Roshni Academy ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAITRI ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Los Altos High School PTSA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Samarth 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.