· Public charity
Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc
To champion arts and culture.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 74 grants below total $1,405,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,546,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k35 grants · $276k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $704k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $75,000 |
| INDIANA STATE MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE | $75,000 |
| EITELJORG MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS | $75,000 |
| ARTMIX | $50,000 |
| THE CABARET | $45,000 |
| BIG CAR MEDIA INC | $42,000 |
| FONSECA THEATRE COMPANY | $42,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS JAZZ FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART DBA NEWFIELDS | $37,500 |
| KIDS DANCE OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| PHOENIX THEATRE | $32,000 |
| MADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER | $32,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS OPERA | $32,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- TCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $802k · revenue +237%
- EMEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $802k · revenue +46%
- MIMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $595k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- AWART WITH A HEART INCone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue -25%
- R(RATHSKELLERS (DAN MCMICHAEL INC)one grant, 2021 · $24k
- BCBLACK CIRCLE DBA LOOM INDYone grant, 2021 · $24k
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.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
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…
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…
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…
To enrich the cultural diversity of our city while providing opportunities for individuals from all communities to experience the beauty and artistry of world-class ballet.
To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.
Enhancing quality of life in the region and support economic development by advocating and promoting arts, arts education and arts organizations in Southwestern Indiana.
The organization's mission is to work to culturally enrich the community of Indianapolis and surrounding locations by producing contemporary narratives of Black Americans and their experiences. Additionally, the Corporation shall foster…
Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.
Noblesville Creates cultivates arts resources to enrich the lives of everyone who experiences our community. We serve as the regional arts partner for the Indiana Arts Commission, serving seven counties in Central Indiana.
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.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre (GHDT) is a professional, contemporary dance company dedicated to the exploration, creation, and presentation of thought-provoking issues through dance. With our ability to transcend the barriers that divide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 110 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.
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- Who funds DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC ↗
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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: Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Arthur Jordan Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lacy Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation 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 Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc 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.