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Vidya & Sanjay Ramabhadran Foundati

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

International$10kEducation$8kReligion$597Arts & Culture$250Health$250Food & Nutrition$250Public Benefit$250
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$119k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRATHAM USA$5,000
UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA$4,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$2,000
TEXAS LYCEUM$1,000
SEWA INTERNATIONAL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$597
Individual grant recipient$250
LEADERSHIP HOUSTON$250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$250
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA: $5k → 8%SHRI MEENAKSHI TEMPE: $597 → 10%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA: $4k → 8%LEADERSHIP HOUSTON: $250 → 16%TEXAS LYCEUM: $1k → 16%HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA: $250 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $250 → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Tex-E Inc
Education
2
Prakasam Global Nri Forum

Help poor students in education.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Pratham International Inc

Pratham international was established to support learning innovations for children and youth in contexts across the globe. the organization facilitates the adaptation and dissemination of proven, scalable solutions, such as the…

International
4
World Affairs Council of South Texas

Education

International
5
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
6
Educate Girls

Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…

International
7
Arya Pragati Usa

The purpose of Arya Pragati USA is to provide financial support to capable financially underprivileged students in India to complete their studies. These studies can be for Undergraduate, Post-Graduate, preparation for competitive exams or…

Human Services
8
Telangana Peoples Association of Dallas

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Arts & Culture
9
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
10
Pardada Pardadi Educational Society Inc

PPES USAs Mission is to further the education of young women. It does so by supporting Pardada Pardadi Educational Society India PPES India a school for girls in uttar pradesh India.

Education
11
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
12
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORP — $9,000 · Food & NutritionUDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORPPRATHAM USA — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USATEXAS LYCEUM ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE TEXAS LYCEUM — $1,000 · OtherTEXAS LYCEUM…Individual grant recipient — $597 · OtherIndividual g…The Houston Food Bank — $250 · OtherThe Houston …Individual grant recipient — $250 · OtherIndividual g…Texas A&M Foundation — $2,000 · EducationTexas A&M F…Sewa International Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP HOUSTON INC — $250 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $250 · Health
Food & Nutrition$9,000Philanthropy$5,000Other$2,097Education$2,000Human Services$1,000Community Improvement$250Health$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUDAVUM KARANGAL OF USA CORP — $9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSewa International Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LYCEUM ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE TEXAS LYCEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP HOUSTON INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Vidya & Sanjay Ramabhadran Foundati funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Vidya & Sanjay Ramabhadran Foundati?

    Find your warmest path to Vidya & Sanjay Ramabhadran Foundati 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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