How much does Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation give?

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $977,740 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (13%), International (12%).

Who are Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sightlife ($4.1M), Antara International Inc ($1.8M), University of New Mexico Foundation Inc ($1.3M).

Does Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation

Q: Where is Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation based?

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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.

$978k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$12MEducation$2.9MInternational$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$706kHousing & Shelter$626kReligion$598kCivil Rights$251kOther$0

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $13k
$10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$250k+2 grants · $850k

$12,400

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HINDU TEMPLE OF THE WOODLAND	$10,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC	$10,000
ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH	$5,000
INDIASPORA	$5,000
19TH NEWS	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 29 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$8.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+35%

Still filing today

72%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

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SIGHTLIFE
6× · 2017–2022 · $4.1M · revenue +5%
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +62%
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PRATHAM USA
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +20%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $7.0M
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ARMMAN
one grant, 2023 · $600k
S
STIR
one grant, 2021 · $250k

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.

Us-India Strategic Partnership Forum Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture

Traveling South Asian Literacy Festival

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…

Arts & Culture

IndoAmerican Chamber of Commerce Greater Houston

Increasing trade and services between usa & india. also to enhance trade within the greater houston area.

Community Improvement

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

Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech

Development Data Lab Inc

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

International

Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International

First Look Institute Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

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.

Arts & Culture

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/51

Grantees still filing

36/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,421,571Community Improvement$4,083,500Education$2,050,000Health$1,817,400Philanthropy$1,482,100International$878,460Human Services$811,850

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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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