· Private foundation
Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MUNCIE | $50,000 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHAFER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $40,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE | $30,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| CARDINAL GREENWAY | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| MOTIVATE OUR MINDS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +13% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BSBall State University Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $501k · revenue +49%
- LLEAD-ECI8× · 2017–2024 · $427k · revenue +193%
- GMGREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $236k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - INDIANA REGIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CECOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -75%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
To develop and promote development and growth of the convention, recreation and visitor industry in the county of delaware, state of indiana.
The muncie sports commission exists to attract, create, host, and support sporting events and recreational opportunities for delaware county, indiana.
To promote economic development and housing revitalization in the city of muncie.
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.
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…
We assist with municipal initiatives where art integration can benefit economic development and quality of place, build community among artists and arts organizations, and serve as a resource for professional growth and opportunity.
Aid in the economic revitalization of muncie indiana through securing land for housing initiatives and urban renewal
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Ministries of Delaware. 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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAD-ECI ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCROFT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GREENWAY INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERWORKS CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds AFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF DELAWARE ↗
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: Ball Brothers Foundation · George and Frances Ball Foundation · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Patricia Schaefer Foundation Tr · Muncie Endurathon Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Randolph County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital 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 Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust 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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