· Private foundation
Biddle Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERIDAN YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $6,323 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $6,281 |
| AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
| TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION | $4,900 |
| PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY | $4,708 |
| INDIANA WISH FUND | $4,577 |
| EVAN HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,104 |
| NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $2,600 |
| SHEPARDS CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY | $2,518 |
| ALLIES INC | $2,009 |
| BENS RANCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK | $1,552 |
| THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +61% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PIPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +36%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +39%
- IWINDIANA WISH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +93%
Funded once
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolisone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +20%- IHIU HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- DFDONAIDE FOUNDATION CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Noblesville Creates. 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 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 121 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.
- Who funds PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WISH INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds BEN'S RANCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT ↗
- Who funds Sheridan Historical Society INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds EVAN R HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S CUPBOARD INC ↗
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: Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · The Hageman Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · 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 Biddle Memorial Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.