· Private foundation
Brian and Lorene Furrer Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $50,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HARVEST CALL | $50,000 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WHITE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATOIN | $10,000 |
| LOVING SHEPHERD MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WLACC | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE PRIVATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AGRIINSTITUTE - AGRICULTURAL LEADER | $6,500 |
| AICM | $5,000 |
| MONON CIVIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your 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 +44% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC4× · 2018–2024 · $123k · revenue +139%
- CPCORNERSTONE PRIVATE SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +43%
- BABATTLEGROUND AERO CHURCH INC3× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +66% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MDMITCH DANIELS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -23%
- SHSACRED HEART CATHLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
To provide education programs to members of the banking industry, those aspiring to develop their capabilities in the business of banking, and instructing the public regarding banking.
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…
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.
To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
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,…
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.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Battleground Aero Church Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 55 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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MITCH DANIELS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLEGROUND AERO CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY WOODS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds AGRIINSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DISCIPLES ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Brian and Lorene Furrer Foundation Inc 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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