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Freeman-Spicer Charities
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $407 |
| MOTHER HUBBARD'S CUPBOARD | $259 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $250 |
| PAWS WINGS & OTHER THINGS | $250 |
| ST JOE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $250 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $250 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $250 |
| HAMILTON CTY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $250 |
| KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $250 |
| BISSELL PET FOUNDATION | $250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250 |
| LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION | $206 |
| JEWISH WELFARE FUND OF GREATER INDY | $203 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $200 |
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 (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC3× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
- CCANDLES5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +46%
- EFExotic Feline Rescue Center2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- SNSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -35%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $1k
- YOYMCA OF MICHIANAone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
IndyHumane's mission is to improve animal welfare in central Indiana. We are committed to ending the cycle of pet overpopulation, providing affordable pet ownership, and ensuring the well-being, health and safely of all animals in our…
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…
The mission of brothers united is to enhance the health and wellness of black communities in indiana.
Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.
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,…
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
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.
Hoosier hills food bank collects, stores, and distributes nutritious food products to non-profit organizations, which provide free feeding programs that serve both ill and needy families and individuals in monroe, martin, owen, orange,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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 26 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 — 2% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 84 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 SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Hamilton County ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLES ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CARTERS CREW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDY BOOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK 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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Lilly Endowment Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Duke Energy Foundation · Hayes Family Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main
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 Freeman-Spicer Charities 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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