· Public charity
Indianapolis Urban League Inc
To assist african americans, other minorities, and disadvantaged individuals to achieve social and economic equality.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $236,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $958,601 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $722,601 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUITY 1821 | $33,000 |
| GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE | $23,000 |
| EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CTR | $20,000 |
| BANKABLE | $20,000 |
| UNION CAMPUS | $20,000 |
| LISC | $20,000 |
| BE NIMBLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STARTUP SPRINT | $20,000 |
| SCORE INDIANAPOLIS | $20,000 |
| INDY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $20,000 |
| THE STARTUP LADIES | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $40k) 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.
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.
To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses
Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.
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Build supportive ecosystem for black-owned business to help them be successful by providing information and coaching
To redress the racial wealth gap and build generational wealth by providing incubator and accelerator services to black and brown entrepreneurs in rural North Carolina.
Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate
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Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
Non-profit business accelerator, providing support support and services to innovators, inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs.
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Black Expo Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ross Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 Equity 1821 Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Be Nimble Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLAGSHIP ENTERPRISE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCORE Association ↗
- Who funds Indy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Circle Up Indy LTD ↗
- Who funds Indiana Black Expo Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROSS FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Urban League Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Urban League 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.