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Ice Miller 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.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$91kHuman Services$62kEnvironment$59kHealth$56kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$10kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIAN UNIVERSITY$14,340
LOAVES & FISHES$3,000
JOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION$1,950
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 (FY18–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
VA
TN
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 4 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$153k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+101%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +180%
  • KI
    KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $59k · revenue +27%
  • LA
    LIFECARE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +86%
  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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
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
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
6
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
8
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
10
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
11
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
12
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance

Manna uses nutrition to improve health for people with serious illnesses who need nourishment to heal. by providing medically tailored meals and nutrition education, we empower people to improve their health and quality of life.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Voorhees Animal Orphanage 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $60,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $19,202 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio…CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $12,750 · OtherCRADLES TO CRAYONSRISE AGAINST HUNGER: $5,700 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 · OtherHOPE FOR THE WARRIORS: $5,000 · OtherHope For The Warriors: $6,250 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · OtherKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $59,000 · EnvironmentKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEA…LIFECARE ALLIANCE: $31,000 · Food & NutritionLIFECARE ALLIANC…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOI…Philabundance: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC: $2,135 · Food & NutritionYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS…LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000 · Human ServicesLOAVES & F…HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHINSDALE …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,250 · HealthST JUDE C…PROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $5,000 · HealthPROJECT S…JOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $3,450 · HealthJOSEPH MA…Marian University: $14,340 · EducationMATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA: $1,200 · EducationVoorhees Animal Orphanage Inc: $6,250 · Animals
Other$128,902Environment$59,000Food & Nutrition$43,135Human Services$28,000Health$24,700Education$15,540Animals$6,250

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 budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $19,202 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarian University: $14,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $3,450 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC: $2,135 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Salesforce FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Salesforce FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salesforce Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ice Miller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ice Miller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ice Miller Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ice Miller Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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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