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Indianapolis Urban League Inc

To assist african americans, other minorities, and disadvantaged individuals to achieve social and economic equality.

$959k
Granted FY2023
11
Itemized grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$236k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$33,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$15M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Indianapolis Urban League Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY202311$236k100%
FY20221$5k0%
FY20214$35k75%
FY20201$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Community Improvement$176kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kHuman Services$26kEducation$20kEmployment$20kYouth Development$8kFood & Nutrition$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equity 1821 Inc$33,000152%
Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee$23,00011%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$20,00010%
Be Nimble Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Flagship Enterprise Center$20,00011%
SCORE Association$20,00010%
Indy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc$20,00013%
Startup Sprint$20,0001n/a
The Startup Ladies$20,0001n/a
Union Campus$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Indianapolis Urban League Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equity 1821 Inc$33,000152%
Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee$23,00011%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$20,00010%
Be Nimble Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Flagship Enterprise Center$20,00011%
SCORE Association$20,00010%
Indy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc$20,00013%
Startup Sprint$20,0001n/a
The Startup Ladies$20,0001n/a
Union Campus$20,0001n/a
Edna Martin Christian Center Inc$20,00010%
Circle Up Indy LTD$16,000211%
Indiana Black Expo Inc$12,50020%
Big Homies of America LLC$10,0001n/a
The Ross Foundation$7,50017%

Where it is load-bearing

Indianapolis Urban League Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEquity 1821 Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetGreater Indianapolis Progress Committee: $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLocal Initiatives Support Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBe Nimble Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFlagship Enterprise Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCORE Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEdna Martin Christian Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCircle Up Indy LTD: $16,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetIndiana Black Expo Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ross Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 6.7% 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 11.

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.

National Urban League IncNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Indianapolis Urban League Inc

How much does Indianapolis Urban League Inc give?
Indianapolis Urban League Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $236,000, out of $958,601 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Indianapolis Urban League Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (62%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Indianapolis Urban League Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Equity 1821 Inc ($33k), Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee ($23k), Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($20k).
Does Indianapolis Urban League Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Indianapolis Urban League Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Urban League Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc.
Where is Indianapolis Urban League Inc based?
Indianapolis Urban League 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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $632k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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