How much does Indy Hunger Network Inc give?

Indy Hunger Network Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $80,430, out of $135,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Indy Hunger Network Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (88%), Religion (7%), Human Services (5%).

Who are Indy Hunger Network Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mid-North Food Pantry Inc ($41k), Crooked Creek Food Pantry Inc ($22k), Westminster Neighborhood Services Inc ($18k).

Does Indy Hunger Network Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Indy Hunger Network Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Indiana Inc, Second Helpings Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.

Where is Indy Hunger Network Inc based?

Indy Hunger Network Inc is based in IN.

Indy Hunger Network Inc

Indy Hunger Network Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$135k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$291kReligion$22kHuman Services$18k

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 11 grants below total $80,430, the rows itemized in this filing. The $135,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,570 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.

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$809k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
THE PARKS ALLIANCE OF INDIANAPOLIS	$7,500
IGLESIA TIERRA PROMETIDA INC	$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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$139k · 7 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$139k

$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+27%

Still filing today

71%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

MF
MID-NORTH FOOD PANTRY INC
3× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +98%
CC
CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue ×12
SO
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +4%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF SHEL
one grant, 2017 · $10k
SI
SHARE INDIANAPOLIS
one grant, 2021 · $10k
ND
NEW DIRECTION CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC
one grant, 2022 · $9k

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.

Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition

New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services

Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services

Indianapolis Community Court Inc

Entity operates a food pantry. they provide food assistance to those individuals needing assistance in indianapolis, in

Crime & Legal

Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc

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.

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Louisville Community Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition

Chicago Hope Inc

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.

Human Services

Hunger Inc

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.

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Meals On Wheels Association of Howard County Indiana Inc

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.…

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Servants Heart of Indy Inc

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

Human Services

Indy Hunger Network Inc

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Archdiocesan Council of Indianapolis Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 35 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/15

Grantees still filing

9/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$163,850Food & Nutrition$79,938Human Services$45,501Religion$15,176Philanthropy$7,160Health$7,000Community Improvement$6,500Housing & Shelter$5,378

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

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.

United Way of Central Indiana IncIN31.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Indy Hunger Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indy Hunger Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home