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Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc

To help youth and families grow stronger together, learn more and live healthier lives.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$125k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 17
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$125k20%
FY202411$295k18%
FY202317$254k41%
FY20229$205k11%
FY202113$225k23%
FY202013$297k85%
FY20193$63kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$795kYouth Development$195kHealth$149kEducation$145kHuman Services$70kEmployment$55kEnvironment$35kFood & Nutrition$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndianapolis Urban Youth Baseball & Softball Inc: $617,090 over 7y, 40% of budgetThe Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc: $72,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIndianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc: $67,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetIndiana Special Olympics Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRightfit Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetIndiana Sports Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers Treasures Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeenworks Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOutreach Inc: $39,820 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $36,535 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndy Hub Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNine 13 Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLittle Red Door Cancer Agency Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Veteran Initiative Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeague of Miracles Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPlayworks Education Energized: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Plaza Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIvy Tech Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 IncIN35.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Pacers 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.

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How do I get to Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc

How much does Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc give?
Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $125,000, out of $151,892 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (54%), Youth Development (13%), Health (10%).
Who are Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Indianapolis Urban Youth Baseball & Softball Inc ($617k), The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc ($72k), Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc ($67k).
Does Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
Where is Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc based?
Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc is based in IN.

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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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