California · Private foundation
Wadhwani 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2020
- 18
- Grants FY2020
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Wadhwani Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Wadhwani Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 6
- Total assets, FY2020
- $155M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 44% of the organizations Wadhwani Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.6M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $2.5M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $3.0M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $934k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $3,084,722 | 4 | 2% |
| Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence Foundation | $2,400,000 | 2 | 53% |
| The Kennedy-Warren Residents Association Inc | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $755,487 | 3 | 0% |
| Foundation for Excellence Inc | $382,529 | 7 | 5% |
| The American India Foundation | $255,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Iisc Foundation | $150,001 | 1 | 8% |
| Iit Hyderabad Foundation | $150,001 | 1 | 94% |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| India Community Center Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wadhwani Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation · Dhanam Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Wadhwani Charitable Foundation
- How much does Wadhwani Charitable Foundation give?
- Wadhwani Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $2,559,764 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Wadhwani Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), International (11%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Wadhwani Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Strategic and International Studies ($3.1M), Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence Foundation ($2.4M), The Kennedy-Warren Residents Association Inc ($800k).
- Does Wadhwani Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wadhwani 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 Wadhwani Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Naren & Vinita Gupta Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation.
- Where is Wadhwani Charitable Foundation based?
- Wadhwani Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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