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The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies at a glance

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The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies

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.

$177k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$572kReligion$274kHealth$133kArts & Culture$63kEnvironment$25kCommunity Improvement$20kInternational$5kPublic Benefit$100
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
$6,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION$35,000
LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION$25,000
ARIHANTA INSTITUTE$20,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$20,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$20,000
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT$20,000
SAKYADHITA$10,981
NAROPA UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$9,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMER$6,500
DRIKUNG MEDITATION CENTER INC$103
Sikh Society of Kentucky Trust Inc$101
Hindu Temple of Kentucky Inc$101
Drepung Comang Institute$101
DENVER SIKH GURUDWARA$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES: $50k → 11%PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND W: $15k → 16%CONVERGENCE: $20k → 14%HINDUPEDIA CORPORATION: $13k → 8%CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $35k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $15k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION: $25k → 11%RANGOLI FOUNDATION FOR ART AND CULTURE: $13k → 14%UC REGENTS: $20k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%HIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%TRUE DHARMA INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST MISSION INCORPO: $20k → 12%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $23k → 14%NAROPA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%MAHAVIR VISION INC: $20k → 5%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $20k → 17%CHANDANSHAMALA LIBRARY: $15k → 11%ARIHANTA INSTITUTE: $20k → 8%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $27k → 10%SAKYADHITA: $11k → 11%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $15k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $11k → 19%HIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $15k → 9%HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $18k → 17%BOSTON CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN D: $10k → 7%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $25k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%HIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $13k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 14%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $15k → 7%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $25k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $27k → 14%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $20k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $20k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $15k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
MA
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 19 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
25

Total granted

$680k
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-1%

Still filing today

74%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionArts & CultureScience & TechPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GT
    GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $167k · revenue +53%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $138k · revenue +40%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $57k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +25%
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.

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University of Spiritual Research
Religion
2
University of the West

To provide a "whole person" education in a context informed by buddhist wisdom and values, and to facilitate cultural understanding and appreciation between east and west.

Education
3
Institute of Buddhist Studies

To provide graduate level education in the full breadth of the buddhist tradition with specialized education supporting pure land and contemporary shin buddhist studies, while advancing jodo shinshu buddhist ministry and buddhist…

Education
4
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
5
International Hindu University Inc

Our mission as per the by-laws : a) the board adopts a strategic plan that includes goals which will lead to acquiring accreditation recognized by us department of education and maintaining it. this includes getting an accreditation from…

Religion
6
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
7
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
8
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
9
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
12
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rangoli Foundation for Art & Culture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 51 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $166,500 · EducationGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNIONLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $138,308 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $57,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $42,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATIONCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,500 · EducationCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION: $25,000 · Education+11 more: $119,701 · Education+11 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $58,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI…HIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $47,500 · OtherHIMALAYAN ACADEMYMAHAVIR VISION INC: $25,000 · OtherMAHAVIR VISION INCCONVERGENCE: $20,000 · OtherCONVERGENCETRUE DHARMA INTERNATIONAL BUDDHISTMISSION INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherTRUE DHARMA INTERNATIONAL BUDDH…UC REGENTS: $20,000 · OtherUC REGENTSUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $15,000 · OtherCHANDANSHAMALA LIBRARY: $15,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND W: $15,000 · OtherRangoli Foundation for Art & Culture: $12,500 · OtherSAKYADHITA: $10,981 · Other+13 more: $46,176 · Other+13 moreINSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC: $50,000 · Science & TechHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureInstitute for Civilizational Studies: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropySIKH SOCIETY OF KENTUCKY TRUST: $201 · ReligionDENVER SIKH GURUDWARA: $200 · ReligionDRIKUNG MEDITATION CENTER INC: $103 · Religion
Education$656,509Other$305,157Science & Tech$50,000Arts & Culture$40,500Community Improvement$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Religion$504

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 budgetGRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION: $166,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $138,308 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $57,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHIMALAYAN ACADEMY: $47,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIHANTA INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWellesley College: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Civilizational Studies: $12,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetRangoli Foundation for Art & Culture: $12,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetNaropa University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California School Of Theology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHindu University of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SOVEREIGN NATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJAIN ACADEMIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAIN CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $225 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREPUNG GOMANG INSTITUTE: $201 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIKH SOCIETY OF KENTUCKY TRUST: $201 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER SIKH GURUDWARA: $200 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

John Templeton Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
John Templeton FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John Templeton Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies?

Find your warmest path to The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies 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 51 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.

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