How much does Arthur Jordan Foundation give?

Arthur Jordan Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $645,235 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Arthur Jordan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Education (5%), Human Services (4%).

Who are Arthur Jordan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Inc ($3.7M), United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($180k), Butler University ($145k).

Does Arthur Jordan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arthur Jordan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur Jordan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Arthur Jordan Foundation based?

Arthur Jordan Foundation is based in IN.

Arthur Jordan Foundation

Arthur Jordan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur Jordan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$645k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$263k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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$4.3MEducation$257kHuman Services$190kPhilanthropy$185kYouth Development$147kFood & Nutrition$122kHealth$44kAnimals$41kOther$0

02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k33 grants · $162k
$10k–50k17 grants · $220k
$250k+1 grant · $263k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE	$262,985
INDY HUNGER NETWORK	$25,000
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$20,000
INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S CHOIR	$20,000
ELEVATE INDIANAPOLIS	$15,000
INDIANAPOLIS OPERA	$15,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA	$12,500
KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC	$12,500
INDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION	$10,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC	$10,000
INDIANA HUMANITIES	$10,000
MILLION MEAL MOVEMENT	$10,000
OUTREACH INC	$10,000
EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART	$10,000
HATCH INC	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.3M · 63 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+36%

Still filing today

86%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

BH
BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +331% · 40% of their budget
BU
Butler University
7× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +39%
GF
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +180%

Funded once

BU
BUTLER UNIVERSITY RONECKER FUND
one grant, 2023 · $50k
UO
University of Indianapolisgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +38%
SJ
ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAFgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +28%

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.

Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit

Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education

Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services

Indianapolis Downtown Marketing Inc

Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.

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Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

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…

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Indiana Symphony Society Inc

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.

Arts & Culture

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

The International Center Inc

The international center is a catalyst to inform, convene, and connect public, private, and civic global objectives in indiana. for nearly half a century, the international center has served as a guide to the world's cultural landscape and…

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Indiana Association of Realtors Inc

To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…

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International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Youth Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Urban Music Theatre Inc. 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

68 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. 68 of the 87 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/68

Grantees still filing

56/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,903,638Other$570,696Arts & Culture$382,950Human Services$246,960Philanthropy$180,000Food & Nutrition$53,000Animals$41,250

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.

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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN109.1× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc

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 Arthur Jordan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Jordan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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