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The Todi Foundation

Gwynned Valley, PA · EIN 23-2744913. Reported 42 grants totalling $4,507,064 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$4,507,064granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$36.3Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Todi Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,502 and $75,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $1,050,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
10 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Apna Ghar IncChicago, IL$2,300,000442024
Vidya Bharati Foundation IncStroudsburg, PA$775,000332024
Indus Educational FoundationConcord, NC$450,000112024
Bharatiya TempleGwynedd Valley, PA$430,473442024
Shree Bhagwan MahaveerElmhurst, NY$143,250112024
India Development & Relief FundNorth Bethesda, MD$112,500442024
Param Shakti Peeth of AmericaRancho Palos Verdes, CA$50,000112021
Support a ChildKansas City, KS$50,000222022
Arogya Foundation of IndiaSpring House, PA$29,000222024
Support a ChildMason, OH$27,000112024
Montgomery County Community CollegeBlue Bell, PA$25,000112021
Share and Care FoundationRochelle Park, NJ$25,000112021
Shri Maan MandirRobbinsville, NJ$25,000112024
Shri Grameen FoundationWashington, DC$21,000112024
Love to LangaBlue Bell, PA$10,000112023
Sakhi for South Asian SurvivorsNew York, NY$10,000112024
KankurgachiBlue Bell, PA$6,300112024
Mount Sinai HospitalNew York, NY$4,237112024
Philadelphia Marathi MandalNorth Wales, PA$3,502112022
Sardardham USAOrland Park, PA$2,500112024
Arsha Vidya PithamSaylorsburg, PA$2,000112024
International Festival FoundationLansdale, PA$1,250112023
Art of Living FoundationWashington, DC$1,001112022
Shriners HospitalPhiladelphia, PA$1,000112024
Up Association of Greater PhiladelphiaAmbler, PA$1,000112021
Tunnels to Tower FoundationStaten Island, NY$500112024
North Penn Volunteer Fire CoNorth Wales, PA$250112024
Indo American ClubMontgomeryville, PA$201112022
Montgomery County FoundationBlue Bell, PA$100112021

6 of 29 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Housing & Shelter
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$628,582$25,000
20228$1,287,861$22,500
20237$656,613$32,863
202418$1,934,008$20,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in Illinois. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Illinois
$2.3M
Pennsylvania
$1.3M
North Carolina
$450K
New York
$158K
Maryland
$112K
New Jersey
$50K
Kansas
$50K
California
$50K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Todi Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 348, Gwynned Valley, PA, 19437. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-2744913 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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