· Private foundation
Vedant Patel 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPS | $25,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE OF NEW JERSEY | $10,000 |
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION USA | $10,000 |
| BAPS | $8,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN TIER | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY | $7,500 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Vedant Patel Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +37%
- SESANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA7× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +68%
- APAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- MAMANAV AAROGYA SEVA KENDRAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MFManu Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +5%
- WLWOODCLIFF LAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -76%
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.
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.
The mission of the center for food action is to "prevent hunger and homelessness and improve the lives of individuals and families living in poverty."
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…
To provide a much-needed third meal of the day to food-insecure children.
The Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds HAND TO HOLD ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Manu Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODCLIFF LAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vedant Patel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vedant Patel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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