Florida · Private foundation
Ujala 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,925,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Ujala Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $2.5M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $723k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.9M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $7,450,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Drexel University | $1,305,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc | $800,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Albemarle Housing Improvement Program Inc | $340,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $320,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pratham USA | $290,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Philadelphia | $235,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Indiaspora | $205,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The Bridgespan Group Inc | $120,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bharatiya Temple Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ujala Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Raj Family Private Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Ujala Foundation
- How much does Ujala Foundation give?
- Ujala Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,453,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ujala Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (74%), Civil Rights (6%), Social Science (6%).
- Who are Ujala Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($7.5M), Drexel University ($1.3M), The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc ($800k).
- Does Ujala Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ujala 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 Ujala Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raj Family Private Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Ujala Foundation based?
- Ujala Foundation is based in FL.
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