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The Vijay R Sanghvi Family 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.

$476k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$740kAnimals$519kCivil Rights$418kEducation$255kInternational$205kEnvironment$171kFood & Nutrition$105kReligion$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$100,000
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES$50,000
FARM SANCTUARY INC$20,000
GIRLS WHO CODE INC$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$20,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$20,000
BROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION INC$15,000
GEMMA PROJECT INC$12,000
GIVE ME SHELTER CAT RESCUE$10,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$10,000
DANCERS GROUP$10,000
FREESTORE-FOODBANK INC$10,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE$10,000
MAYORS ALLIANCE FOR NYCS ANIMALS INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CELEBRATION NATION INC: $50k → 8%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $30k → 24%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
FL

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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 23 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
40

Total granted

$1.8M
$969k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $122k · revenue +49%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +67%
  • JH
    JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • CN
    CELEBRATION NATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +137%

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
6
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is 13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…Dance Arts OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%23%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,906

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
37/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $482,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCIS…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES — $255,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STU…MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC — $100,000 · EducationMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INCMathesar Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationMathesar Foundation Inc+1 more — $30,000 · EducationFARM SANCTUARY INC — $91,500 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION — $80,000 · AnimalsBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIM…ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $62,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE…MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC — $54,000 · AnimalsMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR…CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $51,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL ANIMAL SANC…CHIMP HAVEN INC — $43,500 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INCTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $30,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUA…Front Range Equine Rescue — $25,000 · AnimalsGive Me Shelter Cat Rescue — $20,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $17,000 · Animals+4 more — $31,000 · Animals+4 moreNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER — $80,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $50,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA IN…SPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTER — $44,100 · OtherSPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTERMake the Road New York — $35,000 · OtherVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $35,000 · OtherCELEBRATION NATION INC — $50,000 · OtherCELEBRATION NATION INCAffect Real Change Inc — $30,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 · OtherCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $50,000 · OtherCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTEFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $35,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $40,000 · OtherEARTH LAW CENTER — $35,000 · Other+28 more — $260,379 · Other+28 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $121,727 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsUrban Tilth — $50,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,000 · Environment+2 more — $6,000 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC — $115,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $40,000 · InternationalJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $100,000 · Health+2 more — $2,001 · Health
Education$917,000Animals$505,500Other$779,479Civil Rights$216,727Environment$161,000International$155,000Health$102,001

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $482,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES — $255,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $121,727 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $91,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION — $80,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC — $54,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $51,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCELEBRATION NATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUrban Tilth — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMathesar Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $43,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $23,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGive Me Shelter Cat Rescue — $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCommunity Resource Initiative — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $13,728 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD RUNNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVerified Voting Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Yelp FoundationMarin Community Found…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The James Irvine Foun…The William & Flora H…Swig Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA29.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Swig 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 Vijay R Sanghvi Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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