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Blue Heron Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS INC OF INDIANAPOLIS | $35,000 |
| BISHOP CHATARD HIGH SCHOOL | $33,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,025 |
| OUTREACH INDIANA | $10,500 |
| TRINITY HAVEN | $10,000 |
| WILDWOOD RUNNING | $10,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $6,000 |
| DAMIEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHURCH | $3,600 |
| BAHATI FOUNDATION | $2,430 |
| DONATION TO LEUK&LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,250 |
| ISF FOUNDATION (INDIANA STATE FAIR) | $500 |
| DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INC (ST L UNIVERSITY) | $500 |
| ABILITY EXPERIENCE GEAR UP FLORIDA | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +94%- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +20%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SGSTAR GUIDES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $68k
- MDMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- WIWORKFORCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +100%
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
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,…
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…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Through information exchange, we improve health and healthcare.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
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.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Lasting Change INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Running ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAMIEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE SOUTH ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN KESSLER NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Second Helpings Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · 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 Blue Heron Family 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.
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.
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