· Public charity
Indy Hunger Network Inc
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $80,430 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,570 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 |
|---|---|
| DANIEL WEBSTER SCHOOL 46 | $9,960 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $8,000 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $8,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP) INDIANAPOLIS COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| IGLESIA TIERRA PROMETIDA INC | $7,500 |
| THE PARKS ALLIANCE OF INDIANAPOLIS | $7,500 |
| HOPE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,000 |
| GEORGE T GOODWIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,370 |
| MID-NORTH FOOD PANTRY | $6,100 |
| ZION TABERNACLE COMMUNITY PANTRY | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $46k) 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- MFMID-NORTH FOOD PANTRY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +98%
- CCCROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue ×12
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SISHARE INDIANAPOLISone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF SHELone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NDNEW DIRECTION CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
Food pantry
Provide services in response to individual need
Provide resources for low income clients.
Entity operates a food pantry. they provide food assistance to those individuals needing assistance in indianapolis, in
Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network leverages the resources of houses of worship in the greater Indianapolis area to provide emergency shelter, food, case management, and aftercare services to families experiencing homelessness.
Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.
The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
The organization provides needed groceries to hundreds of needy families through individual contributions of cash and groceries. all of this is done through the efforts of many volunteers.
Meals on Wheels of Howard County focuses on providing affordable or free meals to the shut-ins or medically recuperating residents of Howard County, Indiana. Meals on Wheels provides hot and cold meals that are healthy and affordable.…
The organization exist to provide assistance to needy individuals and families. assistance is provided thru a food pantry and the distributions of food, clothing, furniture & other household items to families with financial needs
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Archdiocesan Council of Indianapolis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Christian Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 MID-NORTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Christian Community Center ↗
- Who funds IYG INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds George Goodwin Community ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds HVAF OF INDIANA 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: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Second Helpings Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Hatch Inc · Indiana University Health Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc · Teachers Treasures Inc · Indiana Youth Institute 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 Indy Hunger Network 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.