· Private foundation
Indiana Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF GOOD SHEPARD | $25,000 |
| SHADOW WOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Indiana Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +97% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NHNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $201k · revenue +563%
- GLGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +28% · 26% of their budget
FRACTURED ATLAS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- HEHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
- PSPurple Songs Can Flyone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -13%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALEone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Greenspaces exists to further sustainability in the chattanooga region, by promoting and developing environmentally preferable practices for living, working and building.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Together with our community and partners, we transform generosity into lasting change towards a prosperous and just chattanooga where all can thrive and achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Purple Songs Can Fly. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 54 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 NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Purple Songs Can Fly ↗
- Who funds SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHADOW WOOD COUNTRY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
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: Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · The Chrysalis Foundation · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Hamico 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 Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.