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The Vattikuti 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 $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $158k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $2,160,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $82,753 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| KRISTI HOUSE | $16,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $10,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK | $9,000 |
| OVERTON YOUTH CENTER | $9,000 |
| MIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $8,000 |
| VIDHYA BHARAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $3,000 |
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 US giving — 86% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($1.8M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 11 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +69%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS5× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +13%- IAINSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC5× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MAMIAMI ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $620k
- MFMENON FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500k
- MAMAURICE A FERRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
Public education
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
The specific purpose, mission, and activity of the corporation is to secure funding for promoting education, research, technology development, startup incubation, acceleration, and translational research at the indian institute of science…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lotus Endowment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vattikuti India Relief Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 49 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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds VATTIKUTI INDIA RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSCIOUS PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SURF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Satyagraha Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds INDUS EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vattikuti 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Inspire Arts and Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% 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.
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