· Public charity
Indiana Youth Institute Inc
Our mission is to improve the lives of all indiana children by strengthening and connecting the people, organizations, and communities focused on kids and youth.
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.
The 132 grants below total $2,074,627 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,494,014 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $419,387 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k114 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH INC (MCCOY) | $60,000 |
| INDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| INDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK | $60,000 |
| STARFISH INITIATIVE | $51,708 |
| PROJECT LEADERSHIP INC | $42,404 |
| INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCES AND CHILD ADVOCACY (IARCA) | $39,050 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA | $31,011 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OPEN DOOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY COALITION FOR EDUCATION AND THE CREATIVE ARTS | $30,000 |
| SAINT FLORIAN CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| PROJECT REBUILD FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $30,000 |
| YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $991k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 93 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- PLPROJECT LEADERSHIP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +81%
- MCMARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH INC2× · 2024–2025 · $90k · revenue +20%
- ESECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION3× · 2023–2025 · $56k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- DIDUNEBROOK INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- DADirectEmployers Association Incone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
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 Indiana Youth Services Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Listen to Our Future Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 191 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 PROJECT LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCES AND CHILD ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN REGION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds City Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OPEN DOOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ARK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bloom Project Inc ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REBUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
- Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DirectEmployers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Hoover Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc · Early Learning Indiana 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 Youth Institute Inc 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.