Vishal Foundation Inc.

Vishal Foundation Inc. is a small, closely held family foundation run out of a New Vernon, New Jersey PO box by trustees Naveen Reddy, Prathibha Reddy, and Santha Reddy — with no paid staff (officer compensation is $0 in every reported year) and no formal program infrastructure. The IRS record lists no mission statement, no stated focus areas, and the foundation's own application_instructions field simply reads "CONTACT PRATHI," a strong signal that grants flow through the trustees' personal networks and interests rather than an open competitive process. This is functionally a family giving vehicle, not an institutional grantmaker, and grant seekers should calibrate expectations accordingly.

The grantee list bears this out: it mixes the trustees' likely alma maters (Brown University received $175,000 across two grants for scholarships and general support — by far the largest single relationship; Bard College received $10,000 across two grants), causes tied to South Asian-American community life (Sankara Eye Foundation and its USA affiliate, $10,000 combined; Manavi Inc., a South Asian women's support organization), effective-altruism-style giving (GiveWell, $40,000 across three grants, funding meta-research into top charities rather than direct programs), and hyper-local New Jersey ties (New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department, two separate grants; two grants to New Jersey Audubon). Median grant size across 24 tracked grants is just $1,500, with an average of $8,316 — meaning most checks are small, loyalty-driven gifts to a wide spread of causes rather than large programmatic investments.

For an unsolicited applicant with no prior relationship to the Reddy family, the realistic odds of success here are low. The one meaningful entry point is thematic overlap with the family's demonstrated interests: ALS/neurodegenerative disease research and assistive technology (Technology Against ALS received $125,000 combined across its two related entities — the single largest cause area by total dollars), civil rights (NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, $25,000 combined), hunger relief, and disaster response (World Central Kitchen, twice). Organizations working in these specific lanes, especially with any personal or professional connection to the trustees, have the best chance of a response. Cold LOIs to a generic program officer inbox are unlikely to be read, since no such inbox or portal exists in the public record.

Vishal Foundation Inc. is a modest-sized private foundation with $3,433,568 in total assets as of FY2024 and $3,835,961 in reported gross income. Its typical_grant_size record shows a median of $1,500, an average of $8,316, and a range from $500 to $75,000 across 24 tracked grants — a strongly bottom-heavy distribution where most gifts are small, loyalty-based checks and only a handful reach five figures. Across the fuller 53-grant history in the data bundle, total tracked giving is $486,168 at an average of $9,173 per grant.

Year-over-year, total giving has been volatile and tracks investment performance rather than any grant-making formula: $129,409 given in 2012, rising to $152,286 (2014) and $149,785 (2019), dipping to $99,802 in 2022, then jumping to $233,260 in 2023 — the highest year on record. Net investment income spiked to $1,071,385 in 2021 (versus a typical $46,000-$120,000), and elevated giving of $210,079 that same year appears directly tied to that gain. FY2024 total_giving and grants_paid were not yet available in the most recent filing.

By program area, higher education dominates: Brown University ($175,000, two grants for scholarships and general support) and Bard College ($10,000, two grants) total $185,000, roughly 38% of the tracked $486,168. ALS research and assistive technology is the second-largest cluster at $125,000 combined (Technology Against ALS, $75,000, plus Technology Against Als Foundation Inc, $50,000). GiveWell, funding independent charity evaluation rather than direct services, received $40,000 across three grants (8%). Civil rights organizations (NAACP and its Legal Defense Fund) received $25,000 combined. The remaining roughly 30% of dollars is spread across roughly 40 organizations in health, hunger relief, disaster response, public media, environment, and hyper-local New Jersey causes, mostly at $250-$12,091 per grant.

Geographically, the 53 tracked grants concentrate in New York (19 grants, 36%) and New Jersey (13 grants, 25%) — consistent with the trustees' home base and commuting ties — followed by California (8, 15%, driven by GiveWell and the Sankara Eye Foundation cluster), DC (6, 11%, NAACP LDF and ICMA), and single-digit counts in Colorado, Rhode Island, Texas, and Tennessee.

All five peer organizations share Vishal Foundation's almost exact asset size (within $2,000 of $3.433M — likely an artifact of how this peer set was matched) and NTEE classification, and none has a public website on file, underscoring that this entire tier of foundation operates without any public-facing grant program. Vishal Foundation is distinguishable mainly by the fact that its Form 990-PF grant schedule is unusually well-documented in public data (53 tracked grants across a decade), giving outside researchers more visibility into its de facto priorities than is typical for a foundation this size — even though it, like its peers, runs no formal application process.

The most recent public filing is the Form 990-PF for fiscal year 2024, filed November 17, 2025, reporting $3,433,568 in total assets and $720,629 in total revenue (largely investment income, since contributions_received has been $0 in every year on record — the foundation is not raising new money, only distributing returns on its existing endowment). Grants-paid and total-giving figures for FY2024 were not yet reflected in the extracted data at the time of this report.

No news coverage, press releases, award announcements, or leadership changes were found for Vishal Foundation Inc. in 2025 or 2026 — expected for an organization of this size and structure, which appears to generate no media activity in any year. The trustee roster (Naveen Reddy and Prathibha Reddy appearing across every reported filing year, with Santha Reddy also listed as a trustee) suggests stable, continuous family governance rather than recent turnover.

The one notable and actionable development is negative: the foundation's website of record, vishalfoundation.org, no longer serves the organization's content. As of this research (September 2026), the domain 302-redirects to an unrelated third-party address (rhcdom.com) carrying a long opaque tracking parameter — a signature of a lapsed domain that has been re-registered for ad-redirect or traffic-monetization purposes. Grant seekers should not treat this URL as a live source of grant guidelines, and should be cautious about any site currently resolving from that domain.

Vishal Foundation Inc. runs no formal application process: its own IRS filing lists application_instructions as literally "CONTACT PRATHI," naming trustee Prathibha Reddy directly rather than pointing to a program officer, portal, or published guidelines. Treat this as check-writing family philanthropy, not an institutional grant program, and adjust tactics accordingly.

Do not use vishalfoundation.org. As of September 2026 the domain redirects to an unrelated third party and is not a working source of grant information — do not submit any form or personal data through it, and do not assume silence from that channel reflects the foundation's actual interest.

The phone number on file in IRS data ("20260223-0020-31") is a malformed/placeholder value, not a dialable number, and no verified email address exists in public records. The most reliable channel is a physical letter of inquiry sent to the foundation's filing address, PO Box 582, New Vernon, NJ 07976-0582, addressed to Prathibha Reddy by name.

Size the ask realistically: the median historical grant is just $1,500, and even the largest single gift on record ($75,000, to Technology Against ALS) is well below what a typical institutional foundation of $3.4M in assets might give. A first-time request in the $500-$15,000 range is far more in line with this funder's actual behavior than a five- or six-figure ask.

Anchor the request to a demonstrated priority rather than a generic mission statement. The strongest fits, based on a decade of actual grants, are: ALS/neurodegenerative disease research and assistive technology (the single largest cause area at $125,000 combined); higher-education scholarships, especially anything connected to Brown University or Bard College; South Asian-American community and health organizations (Sankara Eye Foundation, Manavi Inc.); civil rights and racial justice (NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense Fund); and hunger relief or disaster response (community food banks, World Central Kitchen).

Expect a relationship, not a transaction — most grantees on record (Brown, Bard, the ALS charities, GiveWell, the WNET/public-media cluster) received two or more grants over time, suggesting that an initial small gift, if well-stewarded with a brief personal thank-you, is more likely to lead to repeat support than a one-off large ask. The single biggest mistake would be treating this like a large foundation: sending a formal, form-letter grant application, or a portal-style submission, is unlikely to get any response given there is no staff to process it.