· Private foundation
David P Sheetz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · $50k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| DISTRICT THEATRE | $40,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE COMMISSION ON AGING | $35,000 |
| FREEWHEELIN' COMMUNITY BIKES | $30,000 |
| MISSION HILL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FATHERS AND FAMILY | $25,000 |
| JOY'S HOUSE INDIANAPOLIS | $25,000 |
| PEACE LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| MORNING LIGHT | $20,000 |
| RE ACT | $20,000 |
| HARRISON CENTER | $15,000 |
| MLK COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INDIANAPOLIS | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | $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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +39%- HCHOPE COLLEGE4× · 2021–2025 · $470k · revenue +8%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $245k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $83k
- GCGRACE COMMUNITY BIRTH CENTER BAY EYE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- WJWILLIAM JAMES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -18%
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.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
The mission of the fair housing center of central indiana (fhcci) is to facilitate open housing for all people by ensuring the availability of affordable and accessible housing; promoting housing choice and homeownership; advocating for an…
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…
Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…
To promote equal access to justice for all indiana residents regardless of economic status
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.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
The international center is a catalyst to inform, convene, and connect public, private, and civic global objectives in indiana. for nearly half a century, the international center has served as a guide to the world's cultural landscape and…
The construction and renovation of homes for low income families.
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,…
CoAction envisions the people of Northwest Indiana flourishing regardless of income, ability or age. Thus, people experiencing financial hardship find opportunities, resources and respect at CoAction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace Learning Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is William James Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR URBAN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Young Actors Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JAMES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FORT MICHILIMACKINAC PAGEANT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Latino Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNLOCK TOMORROW ↗
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Duke Energy 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 David P Sheetz 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.