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Mukkamala Family Foundation

Grand Blanc, MI · EIN 38-3224822. Reported 32 grants totalling $470,773 to 19 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,252median grant
$470,773granted, 2021-2025
19recipients, as named on its returns
37%of grantees funded again the next year
$14,572assets, 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. Mukkamala Family 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 $4,252. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,001 and $14,500; the smallest was $108 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

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

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jet USA Educational TrustCranbury, NJ$288,000332023
Chinmaya Mission WestPalo Alto, CA$63,501442025
Kasi TempleFlint, MI$49,950442025
Silicon AndhraSan Jose, CA$25,000112024
Chinmaya Mission ClevelandWestlake, OH$10,000112023
Chinmaya Mission FlintFlint, MI$8,408552025
AapiOak Brook, IL$5,000112023
Chinmaya Mission San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$5,000112025
Flint Institure of ArtFlint, MI$5,000112024
Telugu Association of NaNovi, MI$5,000112025
Ashtalakshmi TempleSugar Land, TX$1,001112025
Bharatiya TempleTroy, MI$1,001112025
Cord USAFlint, MI$1,001112024
Tri City Hindu TempleSaginaw, MI$1,001112021
Mott College FoundationFlint, MI$1,000222024
Boy Scouts of AmericaFlint, MI$400112021
Flint River Watershed CoalitionFlint, MI$201112021
NrityanjaliSwartz Creek, MI$201112021
Iraiven TempleKappa, HI$108112021

5 of 19 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 37%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 11 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
8 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$238,061$700
20224$60,000$13,000
20237$92,005$5,000
20245$33,003$1,502
20257$47,704$5,000

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

61% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New Jersey
$288K
California
$89K
Michigan
$73K
Ohio
$10K
Texas
$6K
Illinois
$5K
Hawaii
$108

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program3 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust3 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,252. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  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 Mukkamala Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 4545 Warwick Circle, Grand Blanc, MI, 48439. 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 38-3224822 · 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.

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