How much does The Vattikuti Foundation give?

The Vattikuti Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $2,396,753 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Vattikuti Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (39%), Arts & Culture (34%), Philanthropy (20%).

Who are The Vattikuti Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Henry Ford Health System ($3.7M), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($3.1M), Vattikuti India Relief Foundation ($1.5M).

Does The Vattikuti Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Vattikuti Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Vattikuti Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Where is The Vattikuti Foundation based?

The Vattikuti Foundation is based in MI.

The Vattikuti Foundation

The Vattikuti Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$2.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.2M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$5.1MArts & Culture$4.4MPhilanthropy$2.6MEducation$416kPublic Safety & Disaster$114kCommunity Improvement$75kInternational$40kEnvironment$30kOther$0

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $43k
$10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$50k–250k2 grants · $158k
$250k+1 grant · $2.2M

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($1.8M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

India$1.3M · 11 grants

Belgium$280k · 2 grants

United Kingdom$160k · 1 grant

Netherlands$23k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.8M · 6 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+11%

Still filing today

83%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +69%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +13%
IA
INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC
5× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +32%

Funded once

MA
MIAMI ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2017 · $620k
MF
MENON FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $500k
MA
MAURICE A FERRE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $250k

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.

The Desai Foundation

Education

Ramirez Mukherjee Foundation

Education

India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education

Samjivani Foundation

Philanthropy

Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation

Philanthropy

Dadiva Foundation

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Florida International University Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Iisc Foundation

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…

Education

Swami Dayanand Education Foundation

Education

Independence Foundation

Education

Shraman Foundation

Arts & Culture

University of Miami

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lotus Endowment Fund Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,095,273Health$3,704,090Arts & Culture$3,280,000Philanthropy$1,511,000Education$254,000Public Safety & Disaster$35,000Crime & Legal$16,000

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

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA11.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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 · 0–50%

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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The camps

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By state

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