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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ASIAN ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| OPERA SAN JOSE | $50,000 |
| EDMOBILE LABS PRIVATE LIMIT | $40,000 |
| PRATHAM | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $25,000 |
| INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| INDIASPORA | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 51% of Wadhwani Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +54% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $2.4M · revenue +194% · 53% of their budget
- CMCarnegie Mellon University3× · 2017–2020 · $755k · revenue +15%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +114%
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 IISC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IIT HYDERABAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- 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 TiE Silicon Valley Inc dba Indus Entrepreneurs ↗
- Who funds The Master's University and Seminary ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAITRI ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wadhwani Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wadhwani Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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