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Freeman-Spicer Charities at a glance

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Freeman-Spicer Charities

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$10kReligion$8kAnimals$7kFood & Nutrition$6kArts & Culture$4kCivil Rights$4kHealth$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$203
Median grant
5
States reached
$291k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$407
MOTHER HUBBARD'S CUPBOARD$259
ST JOE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$250
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$250
BISSELL PET FOUNDATION$250
AMERICAN RED CROSS$250
KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$250
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$250
HAMILTON CTY HARVEST FOOD BANK$250
PAWS WINGS & OTHER THINGS$250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$250
LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION$206
JEWISH WELFARE FUND OF GREATER INDY$203
INDY BOOK PROJECT$200
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHELTERBOX USA: $250 → 14%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $200 → 12%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $250 → 5%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $250 → 5%NEW LEAF-NEW LIFE INC: $500 → 18%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $206 → 5%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $200 → 16%MY SISTERS CLOSET: $100 → 18%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOE CTY: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
IN
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
OK
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 31 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$41k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+18%

Still filing today

58%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsEducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • C
    CANDLES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +46%
  • EF
    Exotic Feline Rescue Center
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +94%
  • DH
    DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $450 · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • SN
    STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -35%
  • YO
    YMCA OF MICHIANA
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • JW
    JEWISH WELFARE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
2
Indiana Wish Inc

The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

Health
3
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
4
Humane Society of Indianapolis

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…

Animals
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
Brothers United Inc

The mission of brothers united is to enhance the health and wellness of black communities in indiana.

Health
7
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc

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.

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8
St Jude House Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
9
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
10
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

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.

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11
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
12
Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
26/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH-EL: $7,680 · OtherTEMPLE BETH-ELOPEN DOORS OF WASHINGTON TWP: $3,250 · OtherOPEN DOORS OF WASHINGTON TWPWESTFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,250 · OtherWESTFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $2,763 · OtherSOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,875 · OtherFOUNDATION OF THE MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC: $1,500 · Other+51 more: $21,015 · Other+51 moreFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionMOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC: $1,509 · Food & NutritionPantry 279 Inc: $250 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionHumane Society for Hamilton County: $1,750 · AnimalsExotic Feline Rescue Center: $1,250 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $250 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $600 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $140 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $100 · InternationalLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $806 · Human ServicesNEW LEAF NEW LIFE: $500 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $250 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $250 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $200 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $200 · Human ServicesMy Sisters Closet of Monroe County: $100 · Human ServicesSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC: $1,150 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $200 · Arts & CultureUNDERGROUND RAILROAD SOCIETY OF CASS COUNTY: $150 · Arts & CultureINDY BOOK PROJECT INC: $400 · EducationNO SHAME ON U INC: $250 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $250 · EducationThe Conscious Kid: $250 · Education
Other$41,333Food & Nutrition$4,359Animals$3,350International$2,340Human Services$2,306Arts & Culture$1,500Education$1,150

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 budgetSOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $2,763 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC: $1,509 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANDLES: $1,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $806 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LEAF NEW LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDY BOOK PROJECT INC: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $302 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPantry 279 Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO SHAME ON U INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD SOCIETY OF CASS COUNTY: $150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAPPY MOFFIT FIELD FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Gardens: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Closet of Monroe County: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margarets House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND FOR THE SILENT INC: $31 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 NEW LEAF NEW LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CARTERS CREW INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • 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 Pantry 279 Inc ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Asante Foundation IncCentral Indiana Commu…University of Notre D…Lilly Endowment Inc1st Source Bank Found…Judd Leighton Foundat…Community Foundation …Fields Foundation Irr…Duke Energy FoundationHayes Family Foundati…Carroll F V Char Tr-M…
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freeman-Spicer Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freeman-Spicer Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Freeman-Spicer Charities?

Find your warmest path to Freeman-Spicer Charities 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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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