· Private foundation
Everwise Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA | $25,000 |
| PLAYWORKS INDIANA | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRL INDIANA | $15,000 |
| BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $9,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $7,500 |
| VALPARAISO CREATIVE COUNCIL | $7,000 |
| VALPARAISO FAMILY YMCA | $7,000 |
| JANUS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC | $6,000 |
| COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC | $5,500 |
| POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 28 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $182k · revenue +764%
- IMINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +525% · 73% of their budget
- UUNCFone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLA CASA DE AMISTAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +291%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foolproof Foundation 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 176 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.
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- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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- Who funds COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC ↗
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- Who funds VALPARAISO YMCA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds STARBASE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
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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 · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
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 Everwise 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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