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Betley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$393k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Betley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$23k17%
FY202311$23k27%
FY20229$22k11%
FY20219$17k33%
FY20206$16k83%
FY20198$13k13%
FY20188$13k25%
FY20178$15kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$34kEducation$33kHousing & Shelter$15kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$9kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Indiana Land Trust Incorporated: $31,925 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Indy Learning Team Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budget100 Black Men of Indianapolis Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Pine Wilderness Academy Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWheeler Mission Ministries Inc: $8,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFelege Hiywot Center Inc: $7,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewfields Inc: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOrchard School Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoster Success: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJameson Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $2,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Helpings Inc: $2,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizon House Inc: $2,375 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Rowing Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKeep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Responsible Pet Ownership: $1,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN30.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Madeira Fund Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Pacers 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.

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About Betley Foundation

How much does Betley Foundation give?
Betley Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Betley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Education (23%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Betley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated ($32k), The Indy Learning Team Inc ($19k), 100 Black Men of Indianapolis Inc ($11k).
Does Betley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Betley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Betley Foundation based?
Betley Foundation is based in IN.

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 24 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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