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Helen Thoele Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gleaners Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Noblesville Boys Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Shepherd Center of Hamilton County | $3,950 |
| Back to Basic Project | $3,000 |
| Faces Low Cost Animal Clinic | $3,000 |
| FIDO | $3,000 |
| Wheeler Mission | $3,000 |
| Hamilton County Low Spayed Clinic | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| Rocky Mountain National Park | $2,000 |
| Voyageurs Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Great Smoky Mountains Association | $2,000 |
| Ambassadors For God's Creatures | $1,000 |
| Indiana Landmarks | $550 |
| Newfields | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% 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
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +11%
- NBNOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +47%
- OTOUTRUN THE SUN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SSSPAY-NEUTER SERVICES OF INDYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- LCLOW COST SPAY NEUTER CLINIC HAMILTON COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- RARandom Acts of Flowersone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -7%
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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.
In 2024, indiana organ procurement organization d.b.a indiana network facilitated 1388 organ transplants from 509 organ donors leading to 1,216 lives saved. additionally, 1,669 tissue and cornea donors gave the gift of healing and sight,…
To rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in crisis, ensure healthy pets through education, advocacy, and affordable services, and inspire a community where the animal-human bond is celebrated and nurtured.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Community Indiana and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 78 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 GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLESVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AUXILIARY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRUN THE SUN INC ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDO INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUEINC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AGAINST COMPANION-ANIMAL EUTHANASIA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADORS FOR GODS CREATURES INC ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKIES LIFE ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lacy Foundation
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 Helen Thoele Family Foundation 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.