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TRIPURA FOUNDATION

TRIPURA FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,115 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$813k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$248k
Net assets
$3.8M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Tripura Foundation does

Mission

Tripura Foundation is a global organization working in india and the usa to bring transformational educational opportunities, health resources and entrepreneurial training to the poorest communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024, Tripura Foundation continued to transform lives by providing education, nourishment, and empowerment to marginalized communities through its core initiatives: hope learning stations, phonemic intelligence (pi) programs, food for all, and hope for the elderly.phonemic intelligence (pi) programs (global)dr. Pillai's pi technology continues to expand its global reach, transforming how children learn and think. In 2024, more than 1,500 children in south africa practiced pi daily, showing improved focus, emotional balance, and classroom engagement. Building on this success, plans are underway to introduce pi across africa in 2025, beginning in ghanareaching 35,000 students and equipping teachers with tools to transform classrooms.key pi initiatives: hope learning centers: after-school programs for marginalized children in india. Pi school program: expanding pi in schools globally, including south africa and soon ghana. Do pi with me: a free online community offering guided pi sessions in multiple languages.hope learning centers (india)designed for marginalized children facing poverty and trauma in rural india, hope learning centers offer transformative education that…

    $276,226 spentof which $97,355 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,226.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($902k) Expenses 100 ($631k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 86 ($779k) Expenses 120 ($755k) Net assets 116 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 72 ($651k) Expenses 52 ($328k) Net assets 148 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 90 ($816k) Expenses 57 ($357k) Net assets 174 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 54 ($489k) Expenses 66 ($417k) Net assets 147 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 69 ($621k) Expenses 85 ($536k) Net assets 157 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 90 ($813k) Expenses 54 ($338k) Net assets 185 ($3.8M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (54)Net assets (185)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $3.0M (+28%).

$2.1M
$2.4M
$3.0M
$3.6M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.8M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of TRIPURA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$271k
’18
$24k
’19
$324k
’20
$459k
’21
$72k
’22
$84k
’23
$475k
’24
13
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Dr Baskaran Pillai

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TRIPURA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TRIPURA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TRIPURA FOUNDATION.

57%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 69% · 2020 93% · 2021 64% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

100% of TRIPURA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

74% of TRIPURA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $64k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.

NY
MA
PA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRIPURA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin58% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like TRIPURA FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 6%

Governance

5
board members
40%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRIPURA FOUNDATION?
TRIPURA FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,115 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRIPURA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $248,115 in grants to TRIPURA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRIPURA FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $142,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRIPURA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing