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Indiana Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$314kHousing & Shelter$212kArts & Culture$111kRecreation & Sports$107kAnimals$75kHealth$50kEducation$36kEnvironment$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF GOOD SHEPARD$25,000
SHADOW WOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%PURPLE SONGS CAN FLY: $25k → 16%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%VALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%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

VT
NH
MI
NY
IN
OH
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Indiana Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Indiana Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 19 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
35

Total granted

$795k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+34%

Still filing today

47%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $201k · revenue +563%
  • GL
    GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +28% · 26% of their budget
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • HE
    HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • PS
    Purple Songs Can Fly
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
2
Tennessee Health Care Association

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.

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3
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Greenspaces Inc

Greenspaces exists to further sustainability in the chattanooga region, by promoting and developing environmentally preferable practices for living, working and building.

Environment
6
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
8
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
9
Harpeth Conservancy

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.

Environment
10
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association

To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area

Arts & Culture
11
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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12
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 54 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LITTLE ROSES FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY: $168,020 · OtherOUR LITTLE ROSES FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETYGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $100,350 · OtherGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INCCHURCH OF GOOD SHEPARD: $65,000 · OtherCHURCH OF GOOD SHEPARDSAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS: $62,000 · OtherSAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELSSHADOW WOOD FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherSHADOW WOOD FOUNDATIONGRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALE: $25,000 · Other+32 more: $168,300 · Other+32 moreNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $200,500 · Housing & ShelterNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTE…+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 · AnimalsFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILD: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePurple Songs Can Fly: $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human ServicesSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyLULA LAKE LAND TRUST: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyDePauw University: $16,500 · EducationCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $2,000 · Education
Other$628,670Housing & Shelter$202,500Animals$50,000Arts & Culture$40,000Human Services$38,350Philanthropy$30,000Education$18,500

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 budgetNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $200,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $100,350 over 2y, 26% of budgetHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPurple Songs Can Fly: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDePauw University: $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSBUILD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHADOW WOOD COUNTRY CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLULA LAKE LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SHADOW WOOD COUNTRY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗

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.

Benwood Foundation IncRobert F Stone Founda…Chattanooga Christian…Lillian L Colby Chari…Robert L & Kathrina H…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Lyndhurst Foundation …The Community Foundat…The Chrysalis Foundat…Schillhahn-Huskey Fou…The Hacker and Kitty …Hamico Inc
Benwood Foundation IncTN22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Indiana Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indiana Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–20%
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 54 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home