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Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$432k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$919kEducation$851kPublic Benefit$427kHousing & Shelter$404kCrime & Legal$285kPhilanthropy$121kHuman Services$100kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF MUNCIE$50,000
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
SHAFER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$45,000
GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$40,000
MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$40,000
MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE$30,000
CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$30,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
MOTIVATE OUR MINDS$20,000
CARDINAL GREENWAY$20,000
HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY$20,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
NONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK$12,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HILLCROFT SERVICES: $25k → 19%HILLCROFT SERVICES: $25k → 19%HILLCROFT SERVICES: $25k → 19%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 29 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
11

Total granted

$3.4M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-42%

Still filing today

72%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BS
    Ball State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $501k · revenue +49%
  • L
    LEAD-ECI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $427k · revenue +193%
  • GM
    GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $236k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AW
    AFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -42%
  • PP
    PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    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
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Bridges Community Services Inc

To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.

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3
Visit Muncie Inc

To develop and promote development and growth of the convention, recreation and visitor industry in the county of delaware, state of indiana.

Community Improvement
4
Muncie Sports Commission Inc

The muncie sports commission exists to attract, create, host, and support sporting events and recreational opportunities for delaware county, indiana.

Recreation & Sports
5
Muncie Home Ownership and Revitalization Inc

To promote economic development and housing revitalization in the city of muncie.

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6
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
7
United Way of Indiana County

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.

Philanthropy
8
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
9
Muncie Arts & Culture Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Muncie Land Bank Inc

Aid in the economic revitalization of muncie indiana through securing land for housing initiatives and urban renewal

Community Improvement
11
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

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.

Philanthropy
12
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 42 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $165,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE - MUNCIE: $125,000 · OtherIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE - MUNCIEBALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherBALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE COMMUNITY…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC: $100,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF M…Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE HENRY AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES: $65,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE HENRY AND RANDO…Individual grant recipient: $59,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $55,000 · OtherMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $50,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $80,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTR…HILLCROFT SERVICES INC: $75,000 · OtherHILLCROFT SERVICES INCCARDINAL GREENWAY INC: $55,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Other+16 more: $154,350 · Other+16 moreBall State University Foundation Inc: $500,500 · EducationBall State Universi…MOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC: $110,000 · EducationMOTIVATE OUR MINDS …+1 more: $15,000 · EducationMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $345,000 · Arts & CultureMUNCIE CHILDREN'S M…INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $145,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER …MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE: $95,000 · Arts & CultureMUNCIE CIVIC THEATR…ORCHESTRA INDIANA INC: $40,150 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA INDIANA I…LEAD-ECI: $427,100 · Public BenefitLEAD-ECIYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $284,850 · Crime & LegalYOUTH OPP…GREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $236,000 · Housing & ShelterMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,208,850Education$625,500Arts & Culture$625,150Public Benefit$427,100Crime & Legal$284,850Housing & Shelter$266,000Philanthropy$120,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $500,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLEAD-ECI: $427,100 over 8y, 22% of budgetMUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $345,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $284,850 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $236,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $165,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC: $110,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE: $95,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetHEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILLCROFT SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARDINAL GREENWAY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetORCHESTRA INDIANA INC: $40,150 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMASTERWORKS CHORALE INC: $34,500 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNONPROFIT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $27,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPROJECT LEADERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF DELAWARE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 THE ARC OF INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB 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 AFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF DELAWARE ↗

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.

Ball Brothers FoundationIN51.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust 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 42 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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