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Vaishnava Charitable 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$42kEnvironment$23kHuman Services$5kScience & Tech$5kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kYouth Development$251Other$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$40
Median grant
13
States reached
$727k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ecology of the Heart$14,143
Inner Voice Productions Inc$10,001
Individual grant recipient$8,632
Iskon of Silicon Valley$4,251
Protection of Children Inc$2,590
Sattva Jivanam Inc$1,301
Temple of Vicenza of the Italian$613
Individual grant recipient$288
Friends Forever$251
Boys Town$117
Arts of Vaishnava$108
St Bonaventure Indian Mission$65
Operation Finally Home$60
VFA$55
Environmental Defense Fund$50
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 (FY23–25, $496) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $117 → 12%Kids Wish Network: $40 → 12%Christian Appalachian Project: $45 → 26%Boys Town: $50 → 12%Law Enforcement Officers Relief Fun: $60 → 9%Boys Town: $50 → 12%Law Enforcement Officers Relief Fun: $40 → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $47 → 9%Law Enforcement Officers Relief Fun: $20 → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $27 → 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

NH
MT
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
NC
DC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 52% of Vaishnava Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 10%.

Vaishnava Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 32 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
29

Total granted

$111k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

38%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • KP
    KRISHNA PROTECTS COWS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    3× · 2023–2025 · $217 · revenue +9%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $74 · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • KH
    Krishna House
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR SMALL CHARITIES INDIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
9
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
10
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
11
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
12
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Small Charities India 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

35 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. 35 of the 79 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
17/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $12,227 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBhaktivedanta Academy: $9,020 · OtherBhaktivedanta AcademyTOVP FOUNDATION INC: $6,860 · OtherTOVP FOUNDATION INCSARAGRAHI: $5,109 · OtherIskon of Silicon Valley: $4,502 · Other+49 more: $21,283 · Other+49 moreECOLOGY OF THE HEART INC: $23,145 · HealthECOLOGY OF THE HEA…+5 more: $198 · HealthINNER VOICE PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,702 · ReligionINNER VOIC…KRISHNA PROTECTS COWS INC: $1,597 · ReligionKRISHNA PR…FOUNDATION FOR SMALL CHARITIES INDIA INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $501 · PhilanthropyFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $217 · Human ServicesLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND INC: $120 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $74 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $45 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $40 · Human ServicesDefenders of Wildlife: $45 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $40 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INC: $20 · AnimalsPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $10 · AnimalsENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $50 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $20 · Environment
Other$103,161Health$23,343Religion$13,299Philanthropy$2,501Human Services$496Animals$135Environment$70

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECOLOGY OF THE HEART INC: $23,145 over 3y, 28% of budgetINNER VOICE PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,702 over 3y, 31% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SMALL CHARITIES INDIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKRISHNA PROTECTS COWS INC: $1,597 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD FIRST INC: $273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER: $251 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $217 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND INC: $120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $78 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $74 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $45 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $15 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ECOLOGY OF THE HEART INC ↗
  • Who funds INNER VOICE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SMALL CHARITIES INDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds KRISHNA PROTECTS COWS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHILD FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗

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.

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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 Vaishnava Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaishnava Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 79 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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