· Private foundation
8020 Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $447k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARSAW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $778,760 |
| J KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC | $712,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $571,473 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRANT COUNT | $561,579 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $525,000 |
| TAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $498,351 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS - CELL | $402,366 |
| ORTHOPEDICS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $360,394 |
| NEARSPACE EDUCATION INC | $335,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY CENTRAL UNITED SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON COU | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FORT WAYNE IN | $249,650 |
| QUESTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $220,000 |
| BLUE JACKET INC | $179,065 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDI | $159,870 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $793k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of 8020 Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- IIINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
- IWINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2023 · $913k · revenue +27%
- QEQuesta Education Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $813k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- DCDEKALB COUNTY EASTERN SCHOOL DISTRIone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- HCHUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $348k
- IMINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $269k · revenue -38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
To support the activities of junior achievement of northern indiana, inc.
To promote industrial and business development, diversification of indiana's economy, and overall economic growth of indiana; to promote the retention, expansion, growth, and modernization of indiana's businesses; to promote the creation…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) advances and strengthens the competitive standing of its 29 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree granting colleges and universities. ICI works to ensure opportunity, access,…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Experience the Heart of Kendallville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds J KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Schools ↗
- Who funds NEARSPACE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPEDICS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA INNOVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Aws Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Parkview Health System Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 8020 Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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