· Private foundation
8020 Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of 8020 Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization 8020 Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 8020 Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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