Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation

About Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation

A defining feature of The Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation is its concentration in a small number of sizable grants to wellness, South Asian spiritual, and health organizations. Recent awards include $200,000 to Divine Art of Yoga Center and $180,000 to Pulmonary Fibrosis Now Inc, alongside other large grants to UC San Diego Foundation, Param Shakti Peeth of America Foundation, and Sankara Eye Foundation USA. The pattern points to funding that supports both community-based spiritual or yoga institutions and disease-focused nonprofits, rather than a broad, highly fragmented portfolio. The foundation’s health-related giving includes repeated support for pulmonary fibrosis advocacy, while its South Asian religious and wellness giving reaches yoga centers, Hindu and Vedic organizations, and related educational programs. Several grants are unrestricted, and others are tied to events, construction, or a named program, such as BioCAP at UC San Diego. That mix suggests a funder comfortable backing operating needs, institutional activities, and specific initiatives within a fairly focused set of interests. Across the grant list, the foundation appears to favor established organizations with recognizable missions and recurring relationships, especially in California and among Hindu, yoga, and health-related groups.

What Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation Funds

In health and patient support, the foundation gave $180,000 to Pulmonary Fibrosis Now Inc for general and unrestricted support, followed by another $175,000 grant to the same organization in 2023. It also funded eye-health work through a $50,000 grant to Joy of Helping for Kalyan Karcti eye hospital in Mathura and another $50,000 grant to Sankara Eye Foundation USA for an eye hospital in Varanasi. In wellness and spiritual programming, it gave $200,000 to Divine Art of Yoga Center for general and unrestricted support and another $50,000 for construction of a yoga center. It also awarded $100,000 to Art of Living Foundation for a charitable event, showing support for public-facing programming as well as institutions. Its education and religious giving includes $50,000 to Hindu University of America Inc for an Ayurvedic college general purpose grant and $51,000 to Ved Vignan Mahavidyapeeth for general support.

How Vasant and Prabha Rathi Foundation Gives