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· Public charity

Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc

To champion arts and culture.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
74
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$16MAnimals$529kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kHuman Services$68kHealth$64kFood & Nutrition$22k
02FY2023 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 74 grants below total $1,405,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,546,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k35 grants · $276k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $704k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA STATE MUSEUM$75,000
EITELJORG MUSEUM$75,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS$75,000
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$75,000
INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE$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
MADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER$32,000
INDIANAPOLIS OPERA$32,000
PHOENIX THEATRE$32,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE COALITION LLC: $9k → 16%HATIAN ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA: $7k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 79 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
20

Total granted

$16M
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+7%

Still filing today

96%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $802k · revenue +237%
  • EM
    EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $802k · revenue +46%
  • MI
    Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $595k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AW
    ART WITH A HEART INC
    one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue -25%
  • FL
    FORTY5 LLC THE VOGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • R(
    RATHSKELLERS (DAN MCMICHAEL INC)
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
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
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Inc

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…

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
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
5
Indiana Symphony Society Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Indianapolis Black Theater Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Indianapolis City Ballet Inc

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.

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8
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.

—
9
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
10
Noblesville Creates

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art Inc

Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.

—
12
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.

—
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 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

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 110 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/102
Grantees still filing
73/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $802,303 · Arts & CultureIndiana Repertory Theatre IncThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $802,303 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis IncEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $801,803 · Arts & CultureEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INCINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $786,411 · Arts & CultureINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCNewfields Inc: $717,008 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $594,887 · Arts & CultureIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc: $590,392 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $552,803 · Arts & CultureDRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $540,637 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie Museum Inc: $507,000 · Arts & Culture+54 more: $6,759,738 · Arts & Culture+54 moreAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: $210,068 · OtherAMERICAN PI…INDIANA BLACK EXPO-INDIANAPOLIS CHAPTER INC: $203,000 · OtherINDIANA BLA…INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $190,830 · OtherINDIANAPOLI…INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR INC: $163,936 · OtherINDIANAPOLI…FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $159,482 · OtherFINE ARTS S…Indianapolis Suzuki Academy: $110,108 · OtherIndianapoli…THE SAPPHIRE THEATRE CO: $68,511 · OtherTHE ATHENAEUM FOUNDATION INC: $85,552 · Other+26 more: $492,919 · Other+26 moreIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $529,437 · AnimalsBENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE INC: $155,953 · EducationIndiana Music Education Association Foundation: $109,616 · EducationTHE PERFORMING ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $26,416 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationHarrison Center for the Arts Inc: $243,813 · ReligionINDIANA FASHION FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $40,411 · ReligionPARTNERSHIPS FOR LAWRENCE INC: $141,268 · Community ImprovementPattern Inc: $65,911 · Community ImprovementINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC: $65,464 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementYoung Actors Theatre Inc: $201,844 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$13,455,285Other$1,684,406Animals$529,437Education$297,985Religion$284,224Community Improvement$278,643Recreation & Sports$201,844

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 budgetIndiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $802,303 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $802,303 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $801,803 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $786,411 over 5y, 17% of budgetNewfields Inc: $717,008 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $594,887 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc: $590,392 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $552,803 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetDRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $540,637 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $529,437 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $507,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPHOENIX THEATRE INC: $357,813 over 5y, 17% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC: $294,913 over 5y, 24% of budgetARTMIX INC: $293,553 over 5y, 19% of budgetBIG CAR MEDIA INC: $292,246 over 5y, 12% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $289,252 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN CABARET THEATRE INC: $273,494 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetDANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC: $263,103 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS BALLET INC: $256,413 over 5y, 16% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $255,803 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetPERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $255,653 over 4y, 17% of budgetHarrison Center for the Arts Inc: $243,813 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $211,302 over 5y, 15% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $210,503 over 5y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: $210,068 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetIndianapolis Children's Choir: $206,198 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER INC FKA MADAME WALKER URBAN LIFE CENTER: $204,389 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetYoung Actors Theatre Inc: $201,844 over 5y, 18% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $199,920 over 5y, 15% of budgetKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $198,763 over 5y, 15% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $194,086 over 5y, 16% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS THEATRE FRINGE FE: $192,795 over 5y, 23% of budgetTHE JOSEF GINGOLD FUND FOR THE INTL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS: $191,404 over 5y, 15% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $190,830 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAsante Art Institute of Indianapolis Inc: $190,116 over 4y, 12% of budgetRIVER WEST THEATRE INC: $170,216 over 5y, 23% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR INC: $163,936 over 5y, 12% of budgetFINE ARTS SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $159,482 over 4y, 12% of budgetBENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE INC: $155,953 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetNEW HARMONY ARTISTS' GUILD INC: $155,161 over 4y, 80% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR LAWRENCE INC: $141,268 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Association: $127,866 over 2y, 49% of budgetCLAUDE MCNEAL'S MUSICAL THEATRE TRAINING PROGRAM INC: $121,811 over 4y, 13% of budgetIndianapolis Suzuki Academy: $110,108 over 5y, 16% of budgetIndiana Music Education Association Foundation: $109,616 over 2y, 92% of budgetFOOTLITE MUSICALS INC: $102,582 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE ATHENAEUM FOUNDATION INC: $85,552 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetURBAN MUSIC THEATRE INC: $83,696 over 5y, 16% 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.

Allen Whitehill Clowe…The Indianapolis Foun…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…Christel DeHaan Famil…Lilly Endowment IncEugene & Marilyn Glic…Arthur Jordan Foundat…Richard M Fairbanks F…Lumina Foundation for…Lacy FoundationMaurer Family Foundat…
Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation IncIN151.2× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report 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.

    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 110 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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