· Private foundation
Ehret Family Foundation Inc
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH INDIANAPOLIS INC | $125,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC | $100,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF INDIANAPOLIS INC | $60,005 |
| SAINT MARY STAR OF THE SEA | $38,333 |
| THE CULTURE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES INDIANAPOLIS INC | $20,010 |
| ST MEINRAD ARCHABBEY | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE IN | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| MOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE CARE CENTERS INC | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT OF FERDINAND IND INC | $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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
Catholic Charities Terre Haute is a comprehensive, direct services agency whose purpose is to serve the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the neglected children and the needy.
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Retreat House welcomes people of all faiths to come away and rest in God. We offer hospitality, a peaceful setting with a supportive environment for reflection, and programs for spiritual renewal.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities exists to affirm the dignity of and respect for all human life by assisting individuals and families in need to achieve empowerment and self-sufficiency.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The little sisters of the poor operate st. mary's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in…
Exclusively charitable, religious and benevolent. The Home is a part of the international Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor, which was founded in France in 1839 and serves the elderly in 32 countries.
The institute of catholic culture is an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the magisterium of the catholic church. the institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering educational programs structured upon the classical liberal…
Sojourner Truth House Inc operates a ministry of hope for homeless and at-risk women and their children in Gary, Indiana
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Indianapolis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sisters of Providence Care Centers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 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) — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds The Culture Project International ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE IN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND ↗
- Who funds ONE IN CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Wesselman Nature Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE O'CONNOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PARKS 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 · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · St Vincent Health Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ehret Family 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.