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The Vijay R Sanghvi Family Foundation at a glance

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The Vijay R Sanghvi Family 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.

$645k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$740kAnimals$519kCivil Rights$418kEducation$255kInternational$205kEnvironment$171kFood & Nutrition$105kReligion$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$100,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC$50,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$50,000
FARM SANCTUARY INC$30,000
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET$30,000
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES$25,000
BROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION INC$25,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$25,000
GIVE ME SHELTER CAT RESCUE$20,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$20,000
CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC$15,000
AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR$15,000
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 (FY20–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $15k → 7%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
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

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
48

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

84%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $172k · revenue +49%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +67%
  • JH
    JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +56%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • MF
    Mathesar Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -53%
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
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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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7
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
8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
10
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
11
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
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
38/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $682,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCIS…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $260,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STU…MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC: $100,000 · EducationMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INCMathesar Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $30,000 · EducationFARM SANCTUARY INC: $121,500 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION: $105,000 · AnimalsBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANI…ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $62,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENS…MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC: $54,000 · AnimalsMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FO…CHIMP HAVEN INC: $53,500 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INCCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $51,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL ANIMAL SAN…Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue: $40,000 · AnimalsGive Me Shelter Cat…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $30,000 · AnimalsFront Range Equine Rescue: $25,000 · Animals+5 more: $48,000 · Animals+5 moreNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT: $50,000 · OtherSPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTER: $44,100 · OtherJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES: $125,000 · OtherJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER S…CELEBRATION NATION INC: $50,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 · OtherCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $50,000 · OtherFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $35,000 · OtherEARTH LAW CENTER: $35,000 · Other+33 more: $360,380 · Other+33 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $171,727 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsInternational Rescue Committee INC: $165,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $60,000 · InternationalSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $50,000 · EnvironmentUrban Tilth: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 · Environment+2 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $35,000 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Resource Initiative: $20,000 · Crime & LegalThe Gemma Project Inc: $12,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$1,122,000Animals$590,500Other$964,480Civil Rights$266,727International$225,000Environment$161,000Crime & Legal$152,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $682,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $260,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $171,727 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES: $125,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $121,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION: $105,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC: $54,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC: $53,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $51,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMathesar Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Tilth: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATION NATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGive Me Shelter Cat Rescue: $40,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $23,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Resource Initiative: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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.

    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 81 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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