The Vijay Amritraj Foundation

Overview

Mission

Made grants to organizations providing heath care to rural villagers, life, and job skills for blind women, shelter, and health care for mentally ill, and abandoned elderly, job skills and employment to destitute women and enhancing the lives of the underprivileged in rural india primarily through education.

The Vijay Amritraj Foundation (VAF) provides grants to organizations serving the most vulnerable, including children with HIV/AIDS at the NAZ Foundation, orphan children at Samrakshan Orphanage, and patients at St. Vincent's Home for AIDS Patients. The foundation accepts applications year-round, with reviews in January, May, and September, and funds both general-purpose and project-specific requests. Led by former tennis star Vijay Amritraj, VAF focuses its giving on underserved populations in India and other regions.

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 5
• Transparency & Controls: 81
• Accountability: 64
• Sustainability: 69
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 3.3% of revenue deployed · 5.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 6 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
• Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 3 filed schedules
• Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.