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Nandansons Charitable Foundation Inc

Edison, NJ · EIN 27-4255136. Reported 124 grants totalling $2,221,126 to 71 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,200median grant
$2,221,126granted, 2021-2024
71organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$13.2Massets, 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. Nandansons Charitable Foundation Inc 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 $2,200. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $19,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $275,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
26 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
46 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 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
Nyu Langone Medical CenterNew York, NY$760,000442024
New York UniversityNew York, NY$251,000112024
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital FoundationNew Brunswick, NJ$136,000442024
Lincoln Center TheaterNew York, NY$132,060222024
Lincoln Center (yplc)New York, NY$125,800442024
Madison Square Park ConservancyNew York, NY$90,000222022
Jewish Community CenterNew York, NY$89,800222024
Desai FoundationWoburn, MA$72,800332024
SakhiNew York, NY$70,000222024
American Indian FoundationNew York, NY$59,001222024
Jfk Medical Center FoundationEdison, NJ$55,575222022
American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York, NY$50,000222022
Catholic CharitiesNewark, NJ$42,750332023
Memorial Sloan Kettering - Cycle for SummerNew York, NY$35,000222022
Jfk University HospitalEdison, NJ$30,000222024
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY$25,000112022
Art & Beauty Society of EdisonEdison, NJ$16,000112022
New York City BalletNew York, NY$15,660112022
American Civil Liberties Union of New JerseyNew York, NY$15,000332023
St Stephen's Episcopal SchoolAustin, TX$14,025222024
Bhajan Sukhseva MissionNew Delhi, Delhi$13,801222024
Broome Street TempleNew York, NY$12,400222023
Jps Choir Parents AssociationsEdison, NJ$12,400222022
Divine Shakti FoundationLouisville, KY$8,504332024
New York Botanical GardensBronx, NY$6,500222023
Vedic Heritage IncHempstead, NY$5,100112024
Indo-American Festivals IncOld Bridge, NJ$5,001112024
Awty International SchoolHouston, TX$5,000112021
Central Park ConservancyNew York, NY$5,000222022
Pledgeling FoundationSan Francisco, CA$4,075112024
Satya Narayan MandirFlushing, NY$4,004442024
Houston ZooHouston, TX$3,600332024
Hindu SamajMahwah, NJ$3,005442024
The Morgan Library and MusuemNew York, NY$3,000112023
The Morgan LibraryNew York, NY$2,600112021
International Mission of MercyEdison, NJ$2,500112022
Teach Me to Breathe IncPearland, TX$2,500112022
The Museum at Fit's CouncilNew York, NY$2,500112021
Yogi Divine Society of MD IncEllicott City, MD$2,002222023
Ekam USABaton Rouge, LA$2,000442024
New York University - Stern School of BusinessNew York, NY$2,000222022
New York University Bobst LibraryNew York, NY$2,000222022
St Stephen's SchoolMillburn, NJ$1,850222022
New Jersey Police Defense Foundation Inc (njpdf)Morganville, NJ$1,616332023
BapsEdison, NJ$1,502222023
Sanatan MandirParsippany, NJ$1,501112024
Brooklyn Botanical GardensBrooklyn, NY$1,500112022
The Sarala Bathena FoundationMonmouth Junction, NJ$1,040112023
India Heritage Foundation NjnyEdison, NJ$1,001112024
Sadhu Vaswani World Peace CenterCloster, NJ$1,001112024
Shree Ram MandirMetuchen, NJ$1,001112022
Shri Sanatan MandirParsippanytroy Hills, NJ$1,001112022
American Foundation for SuicideNew York, NY$1,000112021
American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeNew York, NY$1,000112021
Brain Injury Alliance NjNorth Brunswick Townsh, NJ$1,000222024
Emmanuel Cancer FoundationClark, NJ$1,000332024
Hospital for Special SurgeryNew York, NY$1,000112022
Jps Class of 2003 Alumni CommitteeEdison, NJ$1,000112022
Liberty Science CenterJersey City, NJ$1,000112024
The Alka Ohri FoundationBridgewater, NJ$1,000112023
World Central KitchenWashington, DC$1,000112022
Zoological Society of NjWest Orange, NJ$950112024
Child Rescue CoalitionBoca Raton, FL$500112022
DtcareMoon Township, PA$500112024
Middlesex County SheriffNew Brunswick, NJ$500112021
National Police Defense Foundation (npdf)Morganville, NJ$500112022
NjsoaFlorence, NJ$500112023
Gofundme - Delton BrownRedwood City, CA$250112021
St Stephen's Music FundPort Washington, NY$250112023
Leap to ShineMonmouth Junction, NJ$100112023
New York Road RunnersNew York, NY$100112024

34 of 71 (48%) 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 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 56 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
13 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Human Services
6 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Education
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$466,711$2,500
202238$575,741$1,950
202330$555,205$1,226
202429$623,469$4,075

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. 80% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$1.8M
New Jersey
$322K
Massachusetts
$73K
Texas
$25K
Delhi
$14K
Kentucky
$9K
California
$4K
Maryland
$2K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,200. 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 New York.
  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 Nandansons Charitable Foundation Inc'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: 4 Rio Vista Drive, Edison, NJ, 08820. 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 27-4255136 · 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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