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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $327k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UBS - DONOR ADVISORY FUNDS | $800,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $650,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTNL STUDIES | $350,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $255,597 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BENGALARU | $66,667 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| OPERA SAN JOSE | $50,000 |
| ASIAN ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| EDMOBILE LABS PRIVATE LIMIT | $40,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $25,000 |
| INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| INDIASPORA | $25,000 |
| PRATHAM | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 51% of Wadhwani 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 +54% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825k 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
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES4× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +18%- WIWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $2.4M · revenue +194% · 53% of their budget
- CMCarnegie Mellon University3× · 2017–2020 · $755k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IIINDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAYone grant, 2018 · $502k
- TMThe Master's University and Seminarygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +54%
- SBSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Receives donation for funding & establishing scholarships,promoting reserch & development, ecxellence in education, teaching & other related tax exempt activities
To create an impact on the lives of the disadvantaged, under-served populations by nurturing models of innovation and entrepreneurship.
To promote education, scientific and technological research activities at "indian institute of technology madras".
Our mission is to fuel a 21st-century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists, and innovators. our vision is a brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Perform basic research and preclinical efficacy assessments of new molecular entities being developed for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Discover new pathways and targets for the design and development of…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To fund and promote education and research amongst students and faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. The organization achieves its goals by providing financial and other resources
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 51 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 THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IIT HYDERABAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IISC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Maitri Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIASPORA ↗
- Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SALONI HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds The Master's University and Seminary ↗
- Who funds TiE Silicon Valley Inc dba Indus Entrepreneurs ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAITRI ↗
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: 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
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 Wadhwani 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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