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· Private foundation
The Vijay & Sita Vashee Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$153k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
6
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Arts & Culture$143kInternational$125kEducation$50kCrime & Legal$42kEnvironment$22kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$12kOther$249k
02FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation$75,000
- Overlake Medical Center Foundation$10,000
- Cornell University$10,000
- Southern Poverty Law Center$10,000
- University of Chicago Booth Sch of$10,000
- Cry America$10,000
- KCTS9$5,000
- Seattle Repertory Theatre$5,000
- ACT Theatre$5,000
- Natural Resources Defense Council$5,000
- Planned Parenthood Federation of Am$5,000
- ACLU Foundation$2,500
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Vijay & Sita Vashee Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
The Vijay & Sita Vashee Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$643k · 15 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
4
Total granted
$643k
$20k
Still filing today
53%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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
- IBIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +555%
Cornell University5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +17%- SPSouthern Poverty Law Center6× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SSSeattle Symphonyone grant, 2022 · $10k
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AACLUone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Southwestern Law School
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
Education
2
National Council of University Research
To serve all members by advancing expertise in the profession of research administration.
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3
Seattle University
Seattle University, an institution of higher education, is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
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Southeastern Universities Research
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
Science & Tech
5
New York Law School
The mission of new york law school is to provide its students with knowledge, skill (see schedule o) and ethical values needed for a career in law.
Education
6
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
7
National Women's Law Center
To advance and protect women's legal rights.
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8
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
Education
9
National Public Radio Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Environmental Law Institute
To advance effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information, publications, training courses, seminars, research and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and…
Environment
11
Sur Legal Collaborative Inc
Sur Legal Collaborative, an immigrant and worker rights organization based in Georgia, strives to end labor abuse of workers and to abolish immigrant detention.
Crime & Legal
12
United States Naval Institute
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$248,500Arts & Culture$143,000International$125,000Education$50,000Crime & Legal$42,000Environment$22,000Human Services$20,000Philanthropy$12,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation The Vijay & Sita Vashee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 770428724 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Vijay & Sita Vashee Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines