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Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
160
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$4.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$24MEducation$7.4MCommunity Improvement$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.2MHealth$399kPhilanthropy$283kPublic Safety & Disaster$220kInternational$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 160 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+17 grants · $11M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$173M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Butler University$4,500,000
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Fdn Inc$750,000
Aspire Higher Foundation Inc$600,000
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc$550,000
Indianapolis Ballet Inc$462,500
Shelby County Players Inc$425,000
Harrison Center for the Arts Inc$413,500
Indianapolis Symphonic Choir Inc$364,000
Indianapolis-Marion Co Public Library Fdn$308,000
Indiana State Museum Foundation Inc$303,000
Indianapolis Art Center Inc$303,000
Indianapolis Museum of Art Inc$301,000
Noblesville Creates Inc$300,000
Kids Dance Outreach Inc$292,000
Summer Stock Stage Inc$274,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 → 14%American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem: $30k → 9%American National Red Cross 2: $60k → 14%Lutheran Child & Family Svcs of IN Inc: $18k → 16%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf Inc: $150k → 16%Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc: $18k → 16%Westminster Neighborhood Services Inc: $5k → 16%Shepherd Community Inc: $1k → 16%Indiana Blind Children's Foundation Inc: $95k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
KY
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 126 repeat orgs$9.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 105 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
43

Total granted

$26M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+24%

Still filing today

82%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HC
    Harrison Center for the Arts Inc
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +3% · 49% of their budget
  • IR
    Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +0%
  • KD
    KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +352% · 86% of their budget

Funded once

  • CP
    Conner Prairie Museum Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +40%
  • MU
    MARTIN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -32%
  • BS
    Ball State University Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Orchestra Indiana Inc

To stimulate, educate, and entertain audiences in east central indiana and to provide a meaningful musical experience for professional, community, and student musicians through the performance of quality music, education, and community…

Arts & Culture
2
Indiana Museum of Art Inc

The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…

Arts & Culture
3
Constellation Stage & Screen Inc

The mission of Constellation Stage & Screen is to produce world-class theater and film that impacts the national performing arts industry through new work development. Constellation's productions, community events, and education programs…

Arts & Culture
4
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
5
Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc

Enhancing quality of life in the region and support economic development by advocating and promoting arts, arts education and arts organizations in Southwestern Indiana.

Arts & Culture
6
Arts Council of Southern Indiana

To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.

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7
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.

Arts & Culture
9
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
10
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
11
Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc

The Indianapolis Opera Company Foundations mission is to perpetuate the Indiana Opera Company (Indianapolis Opera) and to financially support the artistic, educational, and cultural claims of the Opera.

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12
Northwest Indiana Symphony Society Inc

The northwest indiana symphony is dedicated to providing quality orchestral programming that promotes opportunities for enjoyment and expands interest in and understanding of diverse music. the symphony is a cultural asset that serves as a…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis; the most unlike its peers is Bloomington Chamber Singers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

176 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. 176 of the 225 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.

33
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/176
Grantees still filing
116/176
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $1,130,000 · Arts & CultureIndiana Repertory Theatre IncKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $1,117,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INCINDIANAPOLIS BALLET INC: $1,077,100 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS BALLET INCCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureCrown Hill Heritage Foundation IncBIG CAR MEDIA INC: $1,036,430 · Arts & CultureBIG CAR MEDIA INCConner Prairie Museum Inc: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie Museum IncASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureNewfields Inc: $752,000 · Arts & Culture+72 more: $9,739,607 · Arts & Culture+72 moreINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,046,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEE…Indiana University School of Medicine: $781,746 · OtherIndiana University Scho…INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR INC: $520,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC …MARTIN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherMARTIN UNIVERSITYAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: $473,000 · OtherAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS I…Indianapolis-Marion Co Public Library Fdn: $308,000 · OtherDiscovering Broadway Inc: $273,000 · OtherPattern Inc: $307,500 · Other+81 more: $3,366,685 · Other+81 moreButler University: $4,500,000 · EducationButler UniversityHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $545,000 · EducationHERRON HIGH SCHOOL…The Oaks Academy Inc: $250,000 · EducationBall State University Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Education+10 more: $198,100 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $910,000 · Recreation & SportsYoung Actors Theatre Inc: $409,000 · Recreation & SportsWAYCROSS INC: $225,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $24,500 · Recreation & SportsHarrison Center for the Arts Inc: $1,536,000 · ReligionSHELBY COUNTY PLAYERS INC: $925,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $68,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ATHENAEUM FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc: $90,000 · PhilanthropyHENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$17,752,137Other$7,575,931Education$5,743,100Recreation & Sports$1,568,500Religion$1,536,000Youth Development$1,011,000Philanthropy$726,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetButler University: $4,500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHarrison Center for the Arts Inc: $1,536,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetIndiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $1,130,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $1,117,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS BALLET INC: $1,077,100 over 3y, 39% of budgetCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc: $1,050,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,046,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBIG CAR MEDIA INC: $1,036,430 over 3y, 50% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY PLAYERS INC: $925,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $910,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetNewfields Inc: $752,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPHOENIX THEATRE INC: $574,600 over 3y, 14% of budgetKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $560,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $545,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC: $526,800 over 3y, 45% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR INC: $520,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetMARTIN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: $473,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $447,709 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetYoung Actors Theatre Inc: $409,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetDANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC: $392,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $377,500 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetARTMIX INC: $337,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $316,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetPattern Inc: $307,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $306,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSUMMER STOCK STAGE INC: $304,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetNoblesville Creates: $300,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetDiscovering Broadway Inc: $273,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $258,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $235,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetHOOSIER SALON PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC: $235,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetWAYCROSS INC: $225,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC: $222,811 over 3y, 25% of budget16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $220,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $220,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetRIVER WEST THEATRE INC: $201,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetMAIN STREET PRODUCTIONS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetArtrageous: $170,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $165,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arts Council of India…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Christel DeHaan Famil…Lilly Endowment IncEugene & Marilyn Glic…Richard M Fairbanks F…Lumina Foundation for…Arthur Jordan Foundat…Maurer Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Arts Council of Indianapolis IncIN151.2× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Arthur Jordan Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 225 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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