· Public charity
Indiana Bar Foundation
The INDIANA BAR FOUNDATION (ibf) is a charitable foundation dedicated to strengthening access to justice and appreciation for the rule of law in indiana.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $658k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $2,607,089 |
| PRO BONO INDIANA INC | $2,524,414 |
| LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP SMALL CLAIMS COUR | $1,492,890 |
| INDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,083,281 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC | $597,251 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM OF NE INDI | $170,000 |
| ABILITY ALLIES | $120,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EVANSVILLE | $98,449 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $90,000 |
| CENTER FOR VICTIM AND HUMAN RIGHTS | $90,000 |
| LEGAL AID CORP OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY | $89,638 |
| METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| KIDS VOICES OF INDIANA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES ANALYSIS LLC | $21,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- PBPRO BONO INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $10.0M · revenue ×18 · 89% of their budget
- ILIndiana Legal Services Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +145%
- ILINDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +100% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- KIKIOSK INFORMATION SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- KKIOWAREone grant, 2023 · $168k
- NCNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIPone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -59%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is District 10 Pro Bono Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 PRO BONO INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEGAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Evansville Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CORP OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER LAWYER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VICTIM AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 6 ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NWI VOLUNTEER LAWYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Indiana Pro Bono Referrals Inc ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 10 PRO BONO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID DISTRICT ELEVEN INC ↗
- Who funds METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAW SCHOOL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER VALLEY DISTRICT 9 PRO BONO COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEADOWS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Clowes Fund Incorporated · Hoover Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Indiana Bar Foundation 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.