· Public charity
Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc
To help strengthen indiana congregations by helping them find and use the best resources available to address their challenges and opportunities - and then to share what we learn nationwide
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $322k
- $10k–50k284 grants · $6.8M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Crossroads Community Church | $100,000 |
| The Way Church | $100,000 |
| La Iglesia Bautista de Oakhill | $75,000 |
| South Bend City Church | $75,000 |
| Israel Metropolitan CME Church | $74,625 |
| Flourish Church | $50,000 |
| Bethany Christian Church | $40,000 |
| Canvas Community Church | $40,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $40,000 |
| St Maria Goretti Catholic Church | $40,000 |
| Iglesia Aposento | $40,000 |
| Maple City Chapel | $40,000 |
| Beulah African Methodist Episcopal Church | $40,000 |
| LifeWell Christian Church | $40,000 |
| Fort Branch Wesleyan Church | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
279 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2024, 159 since wound down; 207 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPETERS ROCK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $223k
- WCWAY CHURCH5× · 2018–2024 · $174k
- SBSOUTH BEND CITY CHURCH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $156k
Funded once
- EMEMMANUEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $40k
- BABethel AME Churchone grant, 2023 · $40k
- SAST ALPHONSUS CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
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.
Religious Ministry
Church
Ministries church
Chruch
Religious services
This is a Church.
Church teaching the word of god to the community
Church
Church
House of Worship
Religious Services
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 900 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Institute for Quality Education Inc · Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc · Second Helpings Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Brotherhood Mutual Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Hageman Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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