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The Shantilal and Chandrakanta Lunia Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$39
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$56kFood & Nutrition$7kReligion$6kHealth$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$39
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DIS$39
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%JAINA: $800 → 14%PEACE VILLAGE LEARNING & RETREAT: $175 → 11%JAIN SOCIETY CAPITAL DIST: $200 → 13%REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $75 → 17%MAGIC BUS: $549 → 20%BAPS SWAMINARAYAN SANSTHA: $1k → 8%DAILY BREAD DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $2k → 10%ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DIS: $39 → 14%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 16%JAINA: $101 → 14%BRAHMA KUMARIS USA: $100 → 13%REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100 → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT: $2k → 17%DAILY BREAD DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $50 → 10%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%JAINA: $100 → 14%NARAYAN SEVA SANSTHAN: $2k → 13%REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $50 → 14%DAILY BREAD DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $40 → 10%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 16%JAINA: $100 → 14%HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF CAPITAL DIS: $1k → 14%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 16%NAVKAR CENTER USA: $100 → 14%HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF CAPITAL DIS: $660 → 14%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 16%NAVKAR CENTER USA: $100 → 14%HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF CAPITAL DIS: $300 → 14%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 16%SHAKER RD LOUDONVILLE FIRE DEPT: $100 → 14%EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 16%SHAKER RD LOUDONVILLE FIRE DEPT: $100 → 14%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 7 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$63k
$9k

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionReligionHealthOther
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

  • EF
    EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +72%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +613%
  • FO
    Federation of Jain Associations in North America
    4× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • NS
    NARAYAN SEVA SANSTHAN
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $55,500 · EducationEDUCARE FOUNDATION INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $3,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD B…DAILY BREAD DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $2,090 · OtherDAILY BREAD DISTRIBUT…NARAYAN SEVA SANSTHAN: $2,000 · OtherNARAYAN SEVA SANSTHANST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT: $2,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RE…HINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY OF CAPITAL DIS: $1,960 · OtherHINDU TEMPLE SOCIETY …BAPS SWAMINARAYAN SANSTHA: $1,000 · OtherBAPS SWAMINARAYAN SAN…Individual grant recipient: $549 · Other+6 more: $950 · Other+6 moreREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $2,150 · Food & NutritionFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $1,101 · ReligionALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $39 · Health
Education$55,500Other$13,549Food & Nutrition$2,150Religion$1,101Health$39

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCARE FOUNDATION INC: $55,500 over 7y, 21% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $1,101 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKER ROAD - LOUDONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $39 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 EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Federation of Jain Associations in North America ↗
  • Who funds SHAKER ROAD - LOUDONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shantilal and Chandrakanta Lunia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shantilal and Chandrakanta Lunia Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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