· Private foundation
JD Finish Line Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $844k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana | $338,000 |
| Girls Inc National Resource Center | $265,000 |
| 100 Black Men of America | $250,510 |
| Feeding America | $250,000 |
| Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc | $70,000 |
| 100 Black Men of Indianapolis | $37,100 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver | $30,000 |
| City of Spencer | $25,000 |
| Precious Dreams Foundation | $17,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis | $17,000 |
| Joseph Maley Foundation | $16,750 |
| 500 Foundation | $15,000 |
| Nine13 sports | $15,000 |
| Dreambuilders Foundation | $15,000 |
| 1000 Ties | $12,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $451k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of JD Finish Line Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 92 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +48%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $499k · revenue +11%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- KIKABOOM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +72%
- PLPhalen Leadership Academiesone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Future founders is building the nation's largest inclusive community of intentional young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded leaders.
Female strong is a 501c3 non-profit organization and a community of committed individuals that offer hands-on programs, mentorship, and experiences that build confidence in middle and high school girls. we support the inclusion of all…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The mission of Big Thought is to make imagination a part of everyday learning. We bring relentless optimism, innovation, and imagination to the biggest problem facing education today: the opportunity gap.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
The brandon foundation is an organization where students are shown the power of their potential through individualized mentoring and family-focused support.
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
We collaborate with youth of color in their learning and development journey providing experiences and resources for critical thinking, exploring voice, deepening brilliance, and contributing to the health and renewal of their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
197 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. 197 of the 296 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds NINE 13 INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 TIES ↗
- Who funds Legends Do Live ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FREE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Private Industry Council ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds TRACKGIRLZ ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLES4SOULS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds INDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana Black Expo Inc ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds FIREWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE 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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation 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 JD Finish Line Foundation 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.
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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