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The Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation at a glance

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The Vasant and Prabha Rathi 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$236k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.5MEducation$1.3MReligion$1.2MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$406kArts & Culture$361kEmployment$225kCommunity Improvement$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $911k
$36,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARAM SHAKTI PEETH OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$236,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$175,000
HINDU UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA INC$50,000
VIDYA BHARATI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$50,000
JOY OF HELPING$50,000
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA$50,000
SHARE A SMILE$50,000
VOICE OF SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE INC$50,000
JAIN CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC$50,000
EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA INC$50,000
PRATHAM USA$50,000
SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VEDIC CULTURE$45,000
TOVP FOUNDATION INC$36,000
YOG SADHAN ASHRAM OF CHICAGO INC$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $524k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARE A SMILE: $50k → 14%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $51k → 7%SHARE A SMILE: $25k → 14%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $51k → 7%SHARE A SMILE: $25k → 14%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $51k → 7%SHARE A SMILE: $10k → 14%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $51k → 7%SHARE A SMILE: $5k → 14%VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $25k → 7%ANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $25k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $25k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 16%SOUTH ASIAN HELPLINE AND REFERRALAGENCY: $25k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN HELPLINE AND REFERRALAGENCY: $25k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ORANGE CALIF INC: $1k → 10%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
MN
IL
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 40 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
7

Total granted

$6.5M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+83%

Still filing today

63%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
Human ServicesHealthInternationalReligionArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • PF
    PULMONARY FIBROSIS NOW INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $736k · revenue +172% · 99% of their budget
  • EV
    EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $376k · revenue +22%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $375k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SU
    SAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +107%
  • INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • B
    BABY2BABYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +268%
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
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
2
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
3
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
4
Sindhi Association of North America
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5
Bharat Swabhiman Overseas Inc

The mission of bharat swabhiman overseas inc is to organize and promote yoga, ayurveda and vedic sciences, and to help the communitiy so all children,adults and families have the same chance to succeed in school and in life by providing…

Arts & Culture
6
Shiv Nadar Foundation

Shiv Nadar Foundation provides access to higher education tounderprivileged students and funds to other charitable organizations to supporteducation, research, social policies for women empowerment, affordable healthcareservices, medical…

Education
7
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
8
Vidyadhara Foundation

Provide no cost education or facilitate by lending funds to other non profits and deserving students,teachers and schools in underserved communities to underserved and remote villages and locations where Governments cannot offer tuition or…

Education
9
Prasaad
Religion
10
Sadvidya Foundation

Education

Religion
11
Satyagraha Foundation
Religion
12
Sardardham Usa Nfp

Organized for charitable, educational, youth empowerment, women empowerment, skill development and health improvement purpose in any country.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sankara Eye Foundation Usa; the most unlike its peers is Anekant Community Center. 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

33 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. 33 of the 50 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIVINE ART OF YOGA CENTER: $350,000 · OtherDIVINE ART OF YOGA CENTERSOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VEDIC CULTURE: $246,100 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VEDIC CULTUREHindu University of America: $185,000 · OtherHindu University of AmericaART OF LIVING FOUNDATION: $161,000 · OtherART OF LIVING FOUNDATIONSARATHI YOGA FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherSARATHI YOGA FOUNDATIONMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT: $110,000 · OtherTOVP FOUNDATION INC: $108,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS OF: $102,000 · OtherVOICE OF SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE INC: $225,000 · OtherVOICE OF SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE INCHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · OtherHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INCJOY OF HELPING: $175,000 · OtherJOY OF HELPING+20 more: $660,450 · Other+20 morePARAM SHAKTI PEETH OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $630,000 · InternationalPARAM SHAKTI PEETH …EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $376,000 · InternationalEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUN…MAGIC BUS USA: $125,000 · InternationalMAGIC BUS USA+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalPULMONARY FIBROSIS NOW INC: $735,500 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS…SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $335,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDA…+2 more: $15,000 · HealthVED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $229,000 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc: $127,500 · Human ServicesSHARE A SMILE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $115,000 · Human ServicesSouth Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesPRATHAM USA: $326,000 · PhilanthropyJUPITER 360 FOUNDATION: $175,000 · PhilanthropyUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $375,000 · Education826LA: $20,000 · EducationAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $315,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,632,550International$1,141,000Health$1,085,500Human Services$523,500Philanthropy$501,000Education$395,000Food & Nutrition$315,000

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 budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS NOW INC: $735,500 over 6y, 99% of budgetPARAM SHAKTI PEETH OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $630,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $376,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $335,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $326,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $315,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetVED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH: $229,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVOICE OF SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE INC: $225,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetHindu University of America: $185,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetJUPITER 360 FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetJOY OF HELPING: $175,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSARATHI YOGA FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetSewa International Inc: $127,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAGIC BUS USA: $125,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSHARE A SMILE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $115,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAHESHWARY MAHASABHA OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $79,950 over 8y, 19% of budgetALL WORLD GAYATRI PARIWAR USA: $57,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetSouth Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKRISHNA BHAKTI SEVA SANGH: $30,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOMEONE CARES SOUP KITCHEN: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBABY2BABY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBE PERFECT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssistance League of Orange: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 PULMONARY FIBROSIS NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds PARAM SHAKTI PEETH OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
  • Who funds VED VIGNAN MAHAVIDYAPEETH ↗
  • Who funds VOICE OF SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hindu University of America ↗
  • Who funds JUPITER 360 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOY OF HELPING ↗
  • Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATHI YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC BUS USA ↗
  • Who funds SHARE A SMILE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAHESHWARY MAHASABHA OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL WORLD GAYATRI PARIWAR USA ↗
  • Who funds South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds KRISHNA BHAKTI SEVA SANGH ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds 826LA ↗
  • Who funds SOMEONE CARES SOUP KITCHEN ↗

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.

Tarsadia FoundationBhutada Family Founda…Orange County Communi…The Wadher Family Fou…Salesforce FoundationBright Funds Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…Verizon FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…California Community …Texas Instruments Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Tarsadia FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tarsadia Foundation · Bhutada Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Wadher Family Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · California Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–30%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Vasant and Prabha Rathi 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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