· Private foundation
Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AWAFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -42%
- PPPURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
How this is measured
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