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James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association

Riley children's endowment raises funds to sustain and advance the life-saving and life-changing care provided by riley hospital for children, to spur research discoveries that will lead to new treatments and cures for devastating childhood illnesses and injuries, and to perpetuate the memory of our namesake, beloved hoosier poet james…

$49M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$292MEducation$7.8MRecreation & Sports$4.9MFood & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$39kArts & Culture$16kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,547,402
Median grant
1
States reached
$558M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Indiana University$31,783,285
Indiana University Health$14,547,402
Purdue University$1,250,000
IU Foundation Bradford Woods$1,080,965
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $10k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$305M · 5 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$305M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IU
    Indiana University Health Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95M · revenue +57%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +97%
  • IU
    Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • DH
    DEACONESS HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +49%
  • CH
    CHRISTAMORE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -31%
  • FS
    Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.

1
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
Ronald Mcdonald House Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana

We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Human Services
3
Deaconess Health System Inc

At deaconess health system, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality as the continuous improvement of services to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of the customers we serve. continued on schedule oour…

Health
4
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
8
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
9
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concord Center Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Evansville Ballet Theatre Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University School of Medicine: $192,589,849 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine+8 more: $1,319,600 · OtherIndiana University Health Inc: $95,386,324 · HealthIndiana University Health IncIndiana University Health Care Associates Inc: $5,926,802 · HealthIndiana University Health Care Associ…+4 more: $121,217 · HealthIndiana University Foundation: $10,579,267 · EducationFamily Service of Bartholomew County Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesIndianapolis Children's Choir: $6,300 · Arts & CultureCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $6,049 · Crime & Legal
Other$193,909,449Health$101,434,343Education$10,579,267Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$6,300Crime & Legal$6,049

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 budgetIndiana University Health Inc: $95,386,324 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $10,579,267 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetIndiana University Health Care Associates Inc: $5,926,802 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRILEY CHEER GUILD INC: $75,487 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDEACONESS HOSPITAL INC: $25,730 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTAMORE HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFamily Service of Bartholomew County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJoe's Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $6,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $6,049 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncCommunity Foundation …United Way of Central…Duke Energy FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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