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Indianapolis Urban League Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Indianapolis Urban League Inc

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

$959k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $236,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $958,601 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $722,601 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.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUITY 1821$33,000
GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE$23,000
LISC$20,000
BANKABLE$20,000
EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CTR$20,000
UNION CAMPUS$20,000
INDY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$20,000
THE STARTUP LADIES$20,000
STARTUP SPRINT$20,000
SCORE INDIANAPOLIS$20,000
BE NIMBLE FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CTR: $20k → 16%BE NIMBLE FOUNDATION: $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 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
Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub

Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.

Philanthropy
2
Metro Equity Collabotrative

To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses

Education
3
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
4
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
5
Webb Squared

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.

Community Improvement
6
Allies for Community Business Inc

Allies for community business is a nonprofit that provides the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.

Community Improvement
7
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
8
Advancing Black Entrepreneurship in

Build supportive ecosystem for black-owned business to help them be successful by providing information and coaching

Civil Rights
9
Southeast Indiana Chamber Foundation Inc

The Southeast Indiana Chamber Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programming focused on leadership, entrepreneurship and career development. The foundation also works with the business community to develop and…

Community Improvement
10
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
11
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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12
Black Achievers Inc

Through workshops training programs and technical assistance we help young disadvantaged professionals start businesses and advance their careers.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Black Expo Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Equity 1821 Inc: $33,000 · Community ImprovementEquity 1821 IncGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE: $23,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEELOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONFLAGSHIP ENTERPRISE CENTER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFLAGSHIP ENTERPRISE CENTERIndy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementIndy Black Chamber of Commerce IncCircle Up Indy LTD: $16,000 · Community ImprovementCircle Up Indy LTDSCORE Association: $20,000 · OtherSCORE AssociationSTARTUP SPRINT: $20,000 · OtherSTARTUP SPRINTTHE STARTUP LADIES: $20,000 · OtherTHE STARTUP LADIESUNION CAMPUS: $20,000 · OtherUNION CAMPUSBIG HOMIES OF AMERICA LLC: $10,000 · OtherBIG HOMIES OF AMERICA LLCBe Nimble Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesBe Nimble Founda…EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEDNA MARTIN CHRI…Indiana Black Expo Inc: $12,500 · Civil RightsTHE ROSS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$132,000Other$90,000Human Services$40,000Civil Rights$12,500Youth Development$7,500

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 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
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.

National Urban League…The Indianapolis Foun…United Way of Central…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Central Indiana Commu…Local Initiatives Sup…Charities Aid Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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