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Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of VIJAY AND MARIE GORADIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $250k+2 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMMAN-USA | $600,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $250,000 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE INC | $25,000 |
| ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER | $23,000 |
| CANCARE INC | $22,840 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $12,400 |
| THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP | $12,000 |
| WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC | $10,000 |
| HINDU TEMPLE OF THE WOODLAND | $10,000 |
| INDIASPORA | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| 19TH NEWS | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $811k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SSIGHTLIFE6× · 2017–2022 · $4.1M · revenue +5%
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +62%- PUPRATHAM USA4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $7.0M
- AARMMANone grant, 2023 · $600k
- SSTIRone grant, 2021 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Activities include creating a powerful strategic partnership between the U.S. & India and promoting bilateral trade. It is about business and government coming together in new ways to create meaningful opportunities for citizens.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Traveling South Asian Literacy Festival brings together a diversity of South Asian Literary voices to surface and deepen conversations around key issues in South Asia and its diasporas. It curates and documents historically…
Increasing trade and services between usa & india. also to enhance trade within the greater houston area.
The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
DDL`s Work is designed to widen public access to and use of economic, demographic and physical data that describes, defines and seeks to alleviate poverty, especially in the developing world
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.
Devoted to a greater appreciation of indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, supporting emerging filmmakers, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the indian diaspora.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Alliance Collaboration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SIGHTLIFE ↗
- Who funds ANTARA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ARMMAN-USA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ECHO INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds iEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds DASRA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds INDIASPORA ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLIND FOUNDATION FOR INDIA ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Skoll Fund · Houston Arts Alliance · United Way of Greater Houston
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation 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.
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.
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