· Private foundation
Griffith Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESKENAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| CROWN HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST ATHLETICS | $20,000 |
| BIG CAR MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ACES | $10,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $8,850 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GANGGANG | $5,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $5,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL | $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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- BPBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +29%
- EHEskenazi Health Foundation Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +162%
- CHCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PHProgress Houseone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -41%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%- IPIndianapolis Private Industry Councilone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +22%
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
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…
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,…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
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.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christamore House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 92 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 Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds IYG INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CABARET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Pattern Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds Damar Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Progress House ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Private Industry Council ↗
- Who funds LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Dorsey Foundation Inc
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 Griffith 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.