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Hoosier Sudz Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hoosier Sudz Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$729k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$354kCrime & Legal$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kEducation$52kHealth$36kPublic Benefit$33kRecreation & Sports$28kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $652k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$202,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
THE PATRIOT FUND INC$150,000
INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN MOTORCYCLE DRILL TEAM$100,000
THE WHITE RIVER YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION$25,000
WELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS$25,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION$7,500
THE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE$7,500
INDIANAPOLIS JAZZ FOUNDATION$5,000
NOBLE OF INDIANA$5,000
THE PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE NETWORK$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $5k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $2k → 16%THE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE: $5k → 16%THE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE: $8k → 16%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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 4 repeat orgs$928k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$66k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-41%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $684k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • WH
    WELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $33k
  • TL
    THE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue -13%
  • MD
    MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +10%
  • SH
    STEWART HOME AND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • PD
    PROJECT DYNAMO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -82%
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
Hoosier Outreach Inc the Hoosier Outreach Project
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2
Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation
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3
Indiana Veteran Initiative Inc

Partnering with veterans, their families, indiana employers, and communities to facilitate a meaningful transition to civilian life while strengthening indiana's economy.

Public Benefit
4
Indy Honor Flight Inc

To provide transportation of veterans to Washington DC War Memorial

Public Benefit
5
Indiana War Memorials Foundation Inc

Honoring hoosier veterans

Arts & Culture
6
Indianapolis Press Club Foundation Inc

The Indianapolis Press Club Foundation, Inc. (IPCF) engages in activities to promote excellence in and public appreciation for journalism in Indiana. IPCF's activities include, but are not limited to, scholarships, paid fellowships, and…

Education
7
Electical Workers Indianapolis Motorcycle Group Inc
Human Services
8
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
9
Veterans of Foreign Wars Indiana Whiteland Vfw 6978

Fraternal, patriotic, historic, and educational mission to preserve, strengthen, and assist Comrades, their Families, and the Community through activities at a common location.

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10
Indy Public Safety Foundation

The mission of ipsf is to enhance the public safety and quality of life in indianapolis.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Indiana National Guard Relief Fund Inc

To provide emergency assistance and relief to members of the indiana national guard and their families who are undergoing periods of personal or financial distress due to a period of mobilization or other military duty

International
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 Happy Hollow Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Dynamo Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN MOTORCYCLE DRILL TEAM: $100,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN MOTORCYCLE DRILL TEAMSTEWART HOME AND SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherSTEWART HOME AND SCHOOLWHITE RIVER YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherWHITE RIVER YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC+8 more: $52,500 · Other+8 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $202,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCPATRIOT FUND INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPATRIOT FUND INC+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTRAL IN…WELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS INC: $32,500 · Public BenefitPROJECT DYNAMO INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesNoble Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Health
Other$427,500Philanthropy$353,500Crime & Legal$125,000Public Benefit$32,500International$25,000Human Services$19,500Health$10,500

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 budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $202,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPATRIOT FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWELCOME HOME VIETNAM VETERANS INC: $32,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetWHITE RIVER YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPROJECT DYNAMO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LORD'S PANTRY AT ANNA'S HOUSE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoble Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People Helping People Network Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncUnited Way of Central…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…Lumina Foundation for…The Indianapolis Foun…Arthur Jordan Foundat…Pacers Foundation IncMaurer Family Foundat…The Brave Heart Found…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Hoover Family Foundat…
Lilly Endowment IncIN20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Arthur Jordan Foundation · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation

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 Hoosier Sudz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoosier Sudz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 22 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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