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Everwise Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$244k
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$607kYouth Development$280kHealth$205kHuman Services$130kEmployment$112kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$49kScience & Tech$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $198k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS IN NEED$16,500
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INDIANAPOLIS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$10,000
YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA$10,000
CARMEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,500
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC$7,500
SPEDACTS INC$7,500
NEXTECH$6,000
E3 ROBOTICS$5,620
WARREN ARTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
REINS OF LIFE$5,000
TEENWORKS INC$5,000
PARKVIEW HUNTINGTON FAMILY YMCA$5,000
QUESTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
DEEPLY INGRAINED$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $59k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 11%Combined Community Services: $500 → 11%VALPARAISO FAMILY YMCA: $7k → 9%VALPARAISO FAMILY YMCA: $7k → 9%EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 16%VALPARAISO FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $2k → 13%NOBLE INC: $3k → 16%VALPARAISO FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $3k → 12%GROWING PLACES INDY: $4k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $3k → 16%GROWING PLACES INDY: $1k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 16%ADEC INC: $4k → 13%REAL SERVICES INC: $3k → 13%REAL SERVICES INC: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 86 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
86

Total granted

$1.4M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BH
    Beacon Health Foundation Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $182k · revenue +764%
  • IM
    INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +91%
  • IT
    IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +356% · 73% of their budget
  • PE
    PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -16%
  • U
    UNCF
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
2
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
4
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc

Indiana tech is a private, independent, and non-denominational university. students are prepared for active participation in the complex, global society of the 21st century and are motivated toward a life of significance and worth. about…

Education
5
Paramount Schools of Excellence

To inspire learning through an unparalleled academic approach, and transform communities by changing lives.

Education
6
Steel City Academy Inc

Steel city academy will empower the students of gary with the most rigorous academic skills, cultural fluency and depth of character so they can choose from boundless opportunities and strengthen the community of gary.

Education
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc

The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) advances and strengthens the competitive standing of its 29 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree granting colleges and universities. ICI works to ensure opportunity, access,…

Education
9
Adelante Schools Inc

Adelante schools is committed to continuously improving the educational outcomes for its scholars in solidarity with families and our community. we are working to create a joyous neighborhood school, preparing all scholars to graduate from…

Education
10
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

—
11
Institute for Quality Education Inc

The organization provides tuition assistance to low-income students, serves as a model for research and legislation, and encourages all schools to improve by introducing competition into the system. the organization conducts research and…

Education
12
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 221 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/121
Grantees still filing
84/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+125 more: $631,073 · Other+125 moreINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · EducationHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE I…Indiana University Foundation: $37,500 · EducationIndiana University Foundatio…COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $26,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INCELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $18,000 · EducationWarren Arts and Education Foundation Inc: $17,500 · EducationQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $17,500 · Education+19 more: $114,135 · Education+19 moreGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS B…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $33,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPOR…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF…FIVE STAR LIFE INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIVE STAR LIFE…DEEPLY INGRAINED INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentDEEPLY INGRAIN…THE E3 ROBOTICS CENTER INC: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE E3 ROBOTIC…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUC…+8 more: $27,000 · Youth Development+8 moreBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $181,668 · HealthBeacon Heal…+3 more: $10,500 · Health+3 moreTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $37,500 · EmploymentTEENWORKS INC: $25,000 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $13,000 · EmploymentCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $12,500 · EmploymentJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $6,000 · Employment+1 more: $2,500 · EmploymentSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART: $29,052 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVALPARAISO CREATIVE COUNCIL INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$631,073Education$466,635Youth Development$243,500Health$192,168Employment$146,500Arts & Culture$122,552Philanthropy$62,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $181,668 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $33,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART: $29,052 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $26,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTEENWORKS INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVALPARAISO YMCA: $20,738 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTARBASE INDIANA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWarren Arts and Education Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFIVE STAR LIFE INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDEEPLY INGRAINED INC: $17,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC: $16,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetTHE E3 ROBOTICS CENTER INC: $15,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetETHOS INC: $15,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSING NATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION READ INC: $13,730 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHuntington University: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALPARAISO CREATIVE COUNCIL INC: $9,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCAMPTOWN INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lilly Endowment Inc1st Source Bank Found…Community Foundation …Carroll F V Char Tr-M…The Indianapolis Foun…Community Foundation …Nisource Charitable F…University of Notre D…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…Judd Leighton Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Lilly Endowment IncIN62.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Everwise Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Everwise Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Everwise Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Everwise Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 221 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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