· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FIDO | $3,000 |
| Faces Low Cost Animal Clinic | $3,000 |
| Wheeler Mission | $3,000 |
| Back to Basic Project | $3,000 |
| Hamilton County Low Spayed Clinic | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| Voyageurs Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Rocky Mountain National Park | $2,000 |
| Great Smoky Mountains Association | $2,000 |
| Ambassadors For God's Creatures | $1,000 |
| Indiana Landmarks | $550 |
| Friends of Shawnee National Forest | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- RARandom Acts of Flowersone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -7%
- LCLOW COST SPAY NEUTER CLINIC HAMILTON COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 78 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 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 VOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
- Who funds SMOKIES LIFE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Thoele Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Thoele Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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