· Private foundation
Helping Fund
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $770k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOO | $112,300 |
| CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $108,500 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $105,000 |
| MICHAEL FEINSTEIN FOUNDATION | $92,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE | $70,000 |
| INDIANA LANDMARKS | $63,500 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $63,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $37,928 |
| GEO | $35,000 |
| CIVIC THEATRE | $32,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF INDIANAPOLIS | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of your 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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $376k · revenue +143%
- BUButler University4× · 2020–2023 · $170k · revenue +33%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $121k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CCICFone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- YYMCAone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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…
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
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.
Ias advances scientific research, education, and communication and cooperation among scientists and improvement in education in the sciences.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We bring people, communities, and cultures together through performance, the creation of new choral works, outreach, and education in indianapolis and beyond.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mind Trust Inc 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.
18 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. 18 of the 50 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 Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
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 · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Ackerman Foundation · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The R B Annis Educational Foundation · White Oak Foundation 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 Helping Fund 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.