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The Vijaya 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.5MReligion$1.0MPublic Benefit$600kInternational$200kScience & Tech$126kPhilanthropy$60kCrime & Legal$40kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD MONUMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NRIVA: $200k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%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

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IL
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CA
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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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$705k · 4 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$705k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+35%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthOther
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

  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $475k · revenue +136%
  • TS
    THE STANWICH SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • AV
    America Votesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +495%
  • SU
    SAYAGYI U BA KHIN TRUST OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $239k
  • NI
    NRIVA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -72%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Register America

The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.

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4
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
8
Dxtera Institute Inc

The mission of DXtera Institute is to transform the way higher education does business and drive student success by providing efficient access to information. DXtera helps instruct and train college and university administrators and…

Education
9
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
10
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project; the most unlike its peers is America Votes. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $1,450,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $475,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC1898 FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE STANWICH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationSAYAGYI U BA KHIN TRUST OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $238,856 · OtherSAYAGYI U BA KHIN TRUST …UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO …VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $200,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJE…SAYAJI U BA KHIN FOUNDATION: $125,700 · OtherSAYAJI U BA KHIN FOUNDAT…GREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCHOOL: $125,000 · OtherGREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCH…MCDERMOTT WILL EMORY RESTRCUTURING AND ADVICE REGARDING FOUNDATION: $40,220 · Other+4 more: $66,000 · Other+4 moreVipassana Community Foundation: $800,000 · ReligionVipassana Community…America Votes: $400,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica V…NRIVA INC: $200,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,040 · Human ServicesNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 · EnvironmentDASRA: $10,000 · InternationalLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $5,000 · Health
Education$2,150,000Other$995,776Religion$800,000Community Improvement$400,000Human Services$205,040Environment$50,000International$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVipassana Community Foundation: $800,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $475,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerica Votes: $400,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNRIVA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget1898 FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE STANWICH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDASRA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $5,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Vijaya Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vijaya Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Vijaya Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Vijaya Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 22 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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