Texas · Private foundation
Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $499k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $76k | 72% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $39k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $18k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $39k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $12k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $7k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Education$113kHealth$40kInternational$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kPhilanthropy$1kCommunity Improvement$1kHuman Services$500Religion$500
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Marsh Rice University | $50,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sewa International Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Medical Association Special Funds Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Las Sendas Rural Health Centers Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Dimmit County Chamber of Commerce | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Marsh Rice University | $50,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sewa International Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Medical Association Special Funds Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Las Sendas Rural Health Centers Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Dimmit County Chamber of Commerce | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carrizo Springs Charities Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Compassion Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.
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About Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (21%), International (10%).
- Who are Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: William Marsh Rice University ($51k), Sewa International Inc ($15k), Texas Medical Association Special Funds Foundation ($10k).
- Does Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Where is Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Varshney Charitable Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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