· Private foundation
Ihs Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Ihs Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Ihs Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $18M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $764k
- $250k+3 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IHS Fund AEF | $16,754,926 |
| Wisconsin Luth College | $377,725 |
| Martin Luther College | $296,395 |
| Gigi's Dog Shelter | $119,111 |
| Opera Project Columbus | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Ebenezer Ethiopian Evangelical Church | $55,000 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Prince of Peace Church | $55,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $50,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | $50,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Fund | $50,000 |
| St Jude Research Hospital | $50,000 |
| WELS KINGDOM WORKERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +118% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2021, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OPOPERA PROJECT COLUMBUS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $594k · revenue +22% · 67% of their budget
- WEWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $241k · revenue +118%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN2× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY VETERINARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $380k
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $157k · revenue +33%- CHCOLUMBUS HUMANEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +121%
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 90 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA PROJECT COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS NETWORK ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Fred C Rutz Foundation · Holzhueter Foundation · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ihs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ihs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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