· Private foundation
Ayres Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL INDIANA COMMUNITY FOUND | $18,000 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $15,000 |
| JOY'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| EASTERSEALS CROSSROADS | $15,000 |
| INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| NEW HOPE OF INDIANA | $10,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA | $10,000 |
| HOME REPAIRS FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| THE OAKS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| ROCK STEADY BOXING INC | $10,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS | $10,000 |
| SULLIVAN MUNCE CULTURAL CENTER | $8,500 |
| INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
87 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +180%
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +20%
- ISINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- DFDAMON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CBCHILDREN'S BUREAU INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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,…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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.
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…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
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…
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…
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
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.
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.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
How this is measured
75 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. 75 of the 148 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 GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SullivanMunce Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESON INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAMIEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OF INDIANA 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ayres Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ayres Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Ayres Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ayres 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.
Play a game based on Ayres’ filings →