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Wadhwani Impact Trust

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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Science & Tech$7.7MHealth$6.7MHuman Services$150kArts & Culture$85kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$61kCommunity Improvement$45kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.7M
$1,000,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS$3,728,042
WADHWANI INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$1,003,294
WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
INDIASPORA$25,000
ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE$10,000
INDIA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE$6,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 75% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($3.7M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%INDIASPORA: $10k → 10%INDIASPORA: $10k → 10%INDIASPORA: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US — 25% of all-years giving ($3.7M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$3.7M · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 8 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$11M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthScience & TechHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WI
    WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +9%
  • I
    INDIASPORA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +93%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +36%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Wepan

The women in engineering proactive network (wepan) was founded in 1990 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. it's mission is to advance cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering education and professions. wepan aims to acheive this…

Science & Tech
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
5
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
6
Technology Policy Institute
International
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
9
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
10
Edison Welding Institute

Advancing our customers' manufacturing competitiveness through innovation in joining and allied technologies

Employment
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

12
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allegheny Conference On Community Development 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.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WADHWANI INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $6,703,294 · HealthWADHWANI INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOUN…+1 more — $100 · HealthWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · Science & TechWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFIC…INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS — $3,728,042 · OtherINDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG…+4 more — $170,500 · OtherINDIASPORA — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $40,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $5,500 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$6,703,394Science & Tech$4,000,000Other$3,898,542Human Services$150,000Philanthropy$50,000Arts & Culture$40,000International$5,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWADHWANI INITIATIVE FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $6,703,294 over 4y, 100% of budgetWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetINDIASPORA — $150,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $44,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Wadhwani Impact Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wadhwani Impact Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Wadhwani Impact Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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