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Indiana Sports Corporation

To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana.

$614k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$1.8MArts & Culture$365kEducation$184kHuman Services$179kCommunity Improvement$175kYouth Development$99kHealth$73kHousing & Shelter$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $405,726, the rows itemized in this filing. The $613,873 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $208,147 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISIT FORT WAYNE$125,000
YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$100,612
THE RIVIERA CLUB FOUNDATION INC$27,123
LAWRENCE SWIM TEAM$14,910
FORT WAYNE SWIM TEAM$11,850
CARMEL SWIM ACADEMY$11,305
FORT WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$10,695
ZIONSVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$10,210
INDIANA STATE WRESTLING ASSOCIATION$10,000
DIVERSITY IN AQUATICS$10,000
FORT WAYNE CURLING CLUB$10,000
BHB INVESTMENT HOLDINGS CARMEL LLC$8,730
FISHERS AREA SWIMMING TIGERS$8,225
SWIM CLUB AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY$7,500
HORIZONS AT ST RICHARD'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$7,500
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, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN YMCA: $5k → 12%THE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%INDY YOGA MOVEMENT: $8k → 5%DAMAR SERVICES: $6k → 16%DAMAR SERVICES: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $8k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $101k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $6k → 16%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

ME
IL
MI
IN
OH
CA
VA
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
48

Total granted

$1.6M
$981k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+36%

Still filing today

87%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k 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
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +40%
  • SR
    ST RICHARD'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    THE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF MONROE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $355k · revenue -7%
  • WS
    WESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +65%
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
Indiana Sports Corporation

To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana. see schedule o.

Recreation & Sports
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
4
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
5
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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6
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
7
Team Indiana Sports Corporation

Fostering national/international amateur sports competition

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8
Indiana County Ymca (5647)

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. ymca programs focus on four core values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. we serve men, women, and children of…

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9
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
12
Indiana Association of Realtors Inc

To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Foundation for Preventative Medicine. 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

65 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. 65 of the 83 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
47/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INC: $708,000 · OtherINDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INCWESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSION: $200,000 · OtherWESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSION+41 more: $458,312 · Other+41 moreSPORTS INDIANA: $562,149 · Community ImprovementSPORTS INDIANAVISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementVISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION…+2 more: $27,000 · Community ImprovementARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $355,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL …THE RIVIERA CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $27,123 · Recreation & SportsMUNCIE SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsNINE 13 INC: $22,375 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA STATE WRESTLING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT WAYNE CURLING CLUB INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDiversity in Aquatics: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBALL INC: $8,868 · Recreation & SportsHORIZON LEAGUE INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsEVANSVILLE-VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS COMMISSION SP: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER EVANSVILLE FIGURE SKATING CLUB: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsJAMESON INC: $6,670 · Recreation & SportsHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $6,150 · Recreation & Sports+5 more: $27,399 · Recreation & SportsYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $100,612 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesDamar Services Inc: $10,720 · Human ServicesINDY YOGA MOVEMENT: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $6,153 · Human Services+1 more: $5,160 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $45,166 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $44,000 · EducationEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationGrace Schools: $6,500 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED: $6,115 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $17,015 · Youth DevelopmentLawrence Swim Team Inc: $14,910 · Youth DevelopmentUMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $6,973 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,366,312Community Improvement$714,149Arts & Culture$355,000Recreation & Sports$183,085Human Services$157,645Education$109,281Youth Development$51,398

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INC: $708,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSPORTS INDIANA: $562,149 over 4y, 100% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $355,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $100,612 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $45,166 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST RICHARD'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $36,810 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $27,700 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE RIVIERA CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $27,123 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $22,983 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUNCIE SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetNINE 13 INC: $22,375 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $17,015 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE SPORTS CORPORATION: $17,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST JOSE COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLawrence Swim Team Inc: $14,910 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $12,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $11,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARMEL SWIM CLUB INC: $11,305 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Preventative Medicine: $11,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetDamar Services Inc: $10,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA STATE WRESTLING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE CURLING CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUSA FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIT DUBOIS COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDiversity in Aquatics: $10,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $8,868 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFishers Area Swimming Tigers FAST: $8,225 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $8,127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMOJA OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHORIZON LEAGUE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE-VANDERBURGH COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS COMMISSION SP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINDY YOGA MOVEMENT: $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $7,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PORTAGE TOWNSHIP INC: $7,161 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER EVANSVILLE FIGURE SKATING CLUB: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNXG YOUTH MOTORSPORTS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $6,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Schools: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUNCIE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $6,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,153 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Indiana Youth Institu…Pacers Foundation IncNina Mason Pulliam Ch…Early Learning Indian…Lumina Foundation for…Maurer Family Foundat…The Brave Heart Found…
Lilly Endowment IncIN39.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation 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 Sports Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indiana Sports Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 83 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 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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