· Public charity
Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc
To help youth and families grow stronger together, learn more and live healthier lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $125,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,892 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,892 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS RBI | $50,000 |
| PARKS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $20,000 |
| VILLAGES OF INDIANA | $20,000 |
| INVETS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- IUINDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $617k · revenue +359% · 40% of their budget
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +18%
- IMINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +11%
- PEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -10%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
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,…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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.
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…
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…
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…
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.
The international center is a catalyst to inform, convene, and connect public, private, and civic global objectives in indiana. for nearly half a century, the international center has served as a guide to the world's cultural landscape and…
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…
The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nine 13 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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 INDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTFIT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS TREASURES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDY HUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NINE 13 INC ↗
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA VETERAN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF MIRACLES INC ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION 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 · 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
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 Indianapolis Indians Charities 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.
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