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Covert 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOW COST SPAY NEUTER CLINIC | $125,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INDPLS | $125,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY FOR HAMILTON CO | $100,932 |
| INDYHUMANE | $95,000 |
| INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANCE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| THE WATERSHED FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE JULIAN CENTER | $50,000 |
| CARMEL CLAY SCHOOLS | $49,636 |
| BHI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICARES | $10,000 |
| WESTFIELD WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GRACE COLLEGE SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| BLACK PINE ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- ALAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $138k · revenue +100%
- LCLOW COST SPAY-NEUTER CLINIC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +11%
- HSHumane Society for Hamilton County4× · 2022–2025 · $109k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GSGrace Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue ×20
- SCShepherd Community Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +62%
- GSGood Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -27%
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.
Pet friendly services of indiana saves animal lives and prevents suffering. we provide free and low-cost spay/neuter surgery certificates to animal shelters, rescue groups and limited-income families. our lifesaving services address the…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
No-kill cat shelter. Cats are provided housing, food, and medical treatments if necessary and then adopted back to the public.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds LOW COST SPAY-NEUTER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Hamilton County ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds Grace Schools ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County Inc ↗
- Who funds Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD 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 · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation
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 Covert 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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