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Ayres Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$292k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% 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$367kEducation$230kHealth$180kHuman Services$162kFood & Nutrition$123kYouth Development$107kHousing & Shelter$69kReligion$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 12%CARING CENTER: $1k → 5%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $6k → 5%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $5k → 16%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $5k → 16%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $3k → 16%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $3k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $15k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $9k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $5k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $5k → 16%OUTSIDE THE BOX: $2k → 16%OUTSIDE THE BOX: $2k → 16%OUTSIDE THE BOX: $2k → 16%OUTSIDE THE BOX: $2k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $5k → 16%SHEPARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%SHEPARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%SHEPARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 16%EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION: $3k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 16%SHEPARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $2k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $2k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $2k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $3k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $2k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $3k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $1k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $1k → 16%DOWN SYNDROME INDIANA: $1k → 16%COBURN PLACE: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE: $2k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $1k → 16%COBURN PLACE: $2k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $15k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $10k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 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

IL
MI
IN
CT
CO
NM
TN
NC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 87 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
50

Total granted

$1.4M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+33%

Still filing today

54%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & 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

  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +180%
  • IH
    INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • IS
    INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • DF
    DAMON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL
    one 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.

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
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
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
3
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
4
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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5
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
6
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
7
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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8
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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9
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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10
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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11
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
12
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christamore House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Help 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
56/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $112,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCIndividual grant recipient: $61,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S: $33,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $30,000 · OtherHORIZON HOUSE INC: $28,000 · Other+88 more: $523,575 · Other+88 moreINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,300 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIET…INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUN…SullivanMunce Cultural Center Inc: $68,000 · Arts & CultureSullivanMunce Cultural Ce…EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $61,500 · Arts & CultureEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERI…Conner Prairie Museum Inc: $21,500 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie Museum Inc+7 more: $26,150 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTMP Enterprises Inc: $34,000 · Human ServicesTMP Enterpri…WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISS…Noble Inc: $21,000 · Human ServicesNoble IncEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNI…COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE…ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CH…THE DAMIEN CENTER: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAMIEN C…Shepherd Community Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesShepherd Com…OUTSIDE THE BOX INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $9,500 · Human Services+4 moreThe Oaks Academy Inc: $47,500 · EducationROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $41,600 · EducationDePauw University: $8,400 · EducationHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $8,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $7,500 · EducationTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $6,500 · Education+5 more: $6,950 · EducationRandom Acts of Flowers: $23,900 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · HealthEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $17,500 · HealthINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC: $10,000 · HealthMORNING LIGHT INC: $5,500 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $15,500 · Recreation & SportsINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsJAMESON INC: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $200 · Recreation & SportsHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $6,500 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Environment+2 more: $700 · Environment
Other$788,375Arts & Culture$352,950Human Services$175,000Education$126,450Health$87,900Recreation & Sports$40,700Environment$22,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $112,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSullivanMunce Cultural Center Inc: $68,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $61,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc: $47,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $41,600 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc: $34,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $23,900 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNoble Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJAMESON INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DAMIEN CENTER: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE OF INDIANA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE OF MERICI INC: $10,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTARFISH INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDePauw University: $8,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE THE BOX INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTMIX INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDayspring Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMORNING LIGHT INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN98.4× affinity46 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 · 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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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.

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 148 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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