· Private foundation
Dorsey 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 $10k22 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Indianapolis Zoo | $100,000 |
| Village of Merici | $52,500 |
| New Story Inc | $50,000 |
| Eskenazi Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $50,000 |
| Benjamin Harrison Presidential | $43,000 |
| Binford Redevelopment & Growth (BRAG) | $30,000 |
| Indiana Golf Foundation | $30,000 |
| Keep Indianapolis Beautiful | $25,000 |
| Cathedral High School | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Kellogg Annual Fund | $25,000 |
| Newfields | $25,000 |
| Christel House | $20,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Central IN | $17,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 12 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- KIKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +47%
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $342k · revenue +85%
- EHEskenazi Health Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- CICENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue -12%
- FRFOOD RESCUE INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -92%
- RRRajeev Ram Foundationone grant, 2022 · $35k
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.
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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,…
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…
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
To promote industrial and business development, diversification of indiana's economy, and overall economic growth of indiana; to promote the retention, expansion, growth, and modernization of indiana's businesses; to promote the creation…
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is KassieKares 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 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 145 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 VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds INDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia (The) Club Fourndation Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEXTECHORG INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VENTURE CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BINFORD REDEVELOPMENT & GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable 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 Dorsey 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.
- With Love Oregon Inc — 16% 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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