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Biddle Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$145kYouth Development$120kCrime & Legal$64kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$53kEducation$34kRecreation & Sports$26kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$2,713
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES INC$16,742
PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY$9,939
SHERIDAN YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$6,717
INDIANA WISH FUND$6,450
SHERIDAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$6,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$5,075
Individual grant recipient$3,500
PEYTON MANNING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ASCENSION ST VINCENT$3,477
TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION$3,210
ICPYAS FORMERLY CHAUCIES PLACE$2,713
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,715
SHEPARDS CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY$1,649
DADCAMP INC$1,233
EVAN HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION$1,100
IU HEALTH$1,096
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 14%DADCAMP INC: $1k → 15%THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JOY'S HOUSE: $2k → 16%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $14k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $13k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $10k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $9k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $8k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $10k → 16%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $3k → 5%NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $3k → 5%NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $2k → 5%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $700 → 16%GLOBAL ORPHAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $1k → 5%PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $1k → 5%SAME AS U: $1k → 5%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
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$574k · 57 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
63

Total granted

$574k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

51%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • PI
    PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +36%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +39%
  • IW
    INDIANA WISH INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • IH
    IU HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • DF
    DONAIDE FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
2
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
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
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Healthlinc Incorporated

Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.

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9
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…

—
10
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Arnett Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHERIDAN YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $69,332 · OtherSHERIDAN YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAMINDIANA WISH FUND: $28,115 · OtherINDIANA WISH FUNDAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $25,992 · OtherAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCESIndividual grant recipient: $19,997 · OtherSHERIDAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $17,500 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY 4-H: $15,367 · OtherSHEPHERD'S CENTER: $15,164 · Other+86 more: $196,300 · Other+86 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $51,720 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATI…INDIANA WISH INC: $37,339 · HealthINDIANA WISH INCTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $11,400 · HealthTRINITY FREE CLINIC …THE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT: $8,838 · HealthTHE TYLER TRENT FOUN…BEN'S RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,584 · HealthBEN'S RANCH FOUNDATI…+8 more: $9,523 · Health+8 morePREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $68,019 · Human ServicesPREVAIL INC OF …Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $10,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chr…NOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $6,188 · Human ServicesNOBLESVILLE YOU…THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,300 · Human Services+6 more: $6,837 · Human Services+6 moreHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · PhilanthropyGood Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc: $12,185 · PhilanthropyEVAN R HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5,100 · PhilanthropyFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,400 · PhilanthropyMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,114 · Food & NutritionMAMA'S CUPBOARD INC: $3,597 · Food & NutritionHamilton County Harvest Food Bank Inc: $1,000 · Food & NutritionINDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE: $8,085 · Youth DevelopmentCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $2,530 · Youth DevelopmentConner Prairie Museum Inc: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,605 · Arts & CultureNoblesville Creates: $680 · Arts & Culture
Other$387,767Health$126,404Human Services$94,344Philanthropy$39,685Food & Nutrition$17,711Youth Development$10,615Arts & Culture$10,285

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 budgetPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $68,019 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $51,720 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA WISH INC: $37,339 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $25,992 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,114 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc: $12,185 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $10,616 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $9,356 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT: $8,838 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetINDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE: $8,085 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEN'S RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,584 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNOBLESVILLE YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $6,188 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEVAN R HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSheridan Historical Society INC: $5,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCAMPTOWN INC: $4,235 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAMA'S CUPBOARD INC: $3,597 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLBY AND CATES CHARITIES INC: $2,850 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $2,530 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHamilton County Leadership Academy Inc: $2,364 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES INC: $2,009 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,605 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc: $1,506 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON CO INC: $1,277 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FATHERLESS FOUNDATION INC: $1,121 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAME AS U INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHamilton County Harvest Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $947 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEEPAWAY CANCER INC: $918 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $799 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoblesville Creates: $680 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLatvian Community Center: $600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNOBLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $525 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARNRAISERS INC: $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART REACH CARMEL INC: $112 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA WISH INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT ↗
  • 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 EVAN R HANSEN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sheridan Historical Society INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAMA'S CUPBOARD 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.

Hamilton County Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…The Brave Heart Found…United Way of Central…Lumina Foundation for…The Indianapolis Foun…Samerian Foundation I…The Hageman Foundatio…Indiana Youth Institu…Maurer Family Foundat…
Hamilton County Community Foundation IncIN50.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Biddle Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Biddle Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 128 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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