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Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc

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

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $125,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $151,892 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,892 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANAPOLIS RBI$50,000
PARKS ALLIANCE$25,000
GIRLS INC$20,000
VILLAGES OF INDIANA$20,000
INVETS$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $10k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $10k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $10k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $10k → 16%VILLAGES OF INDIANA: $20k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

95%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IU
    INDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $617k · revenue +359% · 40% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +18%
  • IM
    INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • TB
    THE BASE INDIANAPOLIS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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
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
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
3
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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4
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
5
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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6
Early Learning Indiana Inc

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)

Human Services
7
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
8
Kipp Indianapolis Inc

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…

Education
9
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.

Human Services
10
The International Center Inc

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…

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11
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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12
International School of Indiana Inc

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC: $617,090 · Recreation & SportsINDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INCINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATIONNINE 13 INC: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsRIGHTFIT INC: $60,000 · OtherRIGHTFIT INCINDIANA PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 · OtherINDIANA PARKS A…GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $20,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD B…THE BASE INDIANAPOLIS: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $10,000 · OtherTEENWORKS INC: $40,000 · OtherTEENWORKS INCINDIANA VETERAN INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · OtherINDIANA VETERAN…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 · EducationINDIANAPO…TEACHERS TREASURES INC: $50,000 · EducationTEACHERS …IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $20,000 · HealthBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $20,000 · HealthBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAGUE OF MIRACLES INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTREACH INC: $39,820 · Human ServicesShepherd Community Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Villages of Indiana Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $36,535 · PhilanthropyINDY HUB FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyLA PLAZA INC: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$764,590Other$200,000Education$122,000Health$112,000Youth Development$105,000Human Services$79,820Philanthropy$79,535

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

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
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 IncCentral Indiana Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lumina Foundation for…The Indianapolis Foun…United Way of Central…Maurer Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…St Vincent Hospital a…Hoover Family Foundat…Pacers Foundation IncThe Brave Heart Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indianapolis Indians Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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