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JD Finish Line Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$338k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.1MYouth Development$1.4MFood & Nutrition$809kHuman Services$582kCivil Rights$461kEducation$245kPhilanthropy$231kCommunity Improvement$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k52 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k74 grants · $844k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Dreambuilders Foundation$15,000
Nine13 sports$15,000
1000 Ties$12,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Intermountain Centers: $10k → 15%Fam 1st Family Foundation: $13k → 10%What Makes You Feel Beautiful: $10k → 9%Gambian Youths Organization: $10k → 28%Children & Family Institute: $10k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Helping Women Period: $10k → 16%Domestic Violence Resource Center Inc: $10k → 8%API Middle Tennessee: $10k → 14%Centro Hispano: $10k → 8%Ser Familia: $25k → 8%Sam's Wish: $10k → 5%Cornerstone Family Programs: $10k → 4%Backpacks of Love Inc: $10k → 6%The Purposeful Unconditional Service to Others Foundation: $5k → 6%Volo Kids Foundation: $10k → 19%Austin Hooper Foundation: $5k → 9%Nevada Blind Children's Foundation: $25k → 13%Phoenix Indian Center: $10k → 11%Latinas In Tech: $5k → 9%Soles4Souls: $25k → 14%Soles4Souls: $10k → 14%America Cares Too: $10k → 14%Covenant House California: $10k → 14%SGA Youth and Family Services: $25k → 14%True Beauty Discovery: $5k → 17%Noble: $3k → 16%100 Black Men of Indianapolis: $37k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $10k → 16%Paws and Think Inc: $10k → 16%Firefly Children & Family Alliance: $10k → 16%Coburn Place Safehaven II Inc: $25k → 16%Be Nimble Foundation Inc: $3k → 16%Project Free University: $25k → 16%Project Free University: $25k → 16%Project Free University: $1k → 16%Indiana Youth Group: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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IL
MI
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SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of JD Finish Line Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 21%.

JD Finish Line Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 46 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
153

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +48%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $499k · revenue +11%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • KI
    KABOOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +72%
  • PL
    Phalen Leadership Academies
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • IP
    Indianapolis Private Industry Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +65%
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
Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis

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…

Youth Development
2
Youthbuild Global Inc

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…

Employment
3
Future Founders Foundation

Future founders is building the nation's largest inclusive community of intentional young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded leaders.

Education
4
Female Strong

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…

Community Improvement
5
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
6
Big Thought

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
8
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
9
The Brandon Foundation Incorporated

The brandon foundation is an organization where students are shown the power of their potential through individualized mentoring and family-focused support.

Youth Development
10
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

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…

Youth Development
11
Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
12
Inspirational Workshops

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp; 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.
05the grantee network

197 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. 197 of the 296 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
189/197
Grantees still filing
103/197
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $2,554,342 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCNINE 13 INC: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INC: $110,750 · Recreation & Sports+12 more: $246,791 · Recreation & Sports+12 moreGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $498,525 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCGirls Inc National Resource Center: $265,000 · OtherGirls Inc National Resource CenterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $212,573 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INCKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $158,895 · Other+105 more: $1,885,325 · Other+105 more100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $250,510 · Youth Development100 BLACK…1000 TIES: $55,225 · Youth Development1000 TIESFIREWORK FOUNDATION: $25,365 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ACCESS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $25,000 · Youth Development+21 more: $277,950 · Youth Development+21 morePROJECT FREE UNIVERSITY: $51,000 · Human Services100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $37,100 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC: $35,077 · Human ServicesSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMILIA: $25,000 · Human ServicesIYG INC: $15,000 · Human Services+20 more: $202,500 · Human ServicesFeeding America: $250,000 · Food & NutritionROOTS RISING INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSWEETFEET: $15,000 · Community ImprovementHEY BENJI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSide Hustle Economy Co: $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Educate Me Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementDONORSCHOOSEORG: $47,329 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $25,000 · EducationPOSITIVE CHARACTER GIRLS INC: $20,000 · EducationYouth Guidance: $20,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $18,250 · EducationTHE DREAMVILLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWarren Arts and Education Foundation Inc: $12,271 · EducationEducation is Key: $11,000 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $10,000 · EducationFATHERS AND FAMILIES RESOURCERESEARCH CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationCATCH THE STARS FOUNDATION: $9,375 · Education
Recreation & Sports$3,026,883Other$3,020,318Youth Development$684,050Human Services$440,677Food & Nutrition$270,000Community Improvement$205,000Education$198,225

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $2,554,342 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $498,525 over 5y, 0.2% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $250,510 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFeeding America: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $212,573 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $158,895 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNINE 13 INC: $115,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetKABOOM INC: $110,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $89,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION: $82,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budget1000 TIES: $55,225 over 3y, 31% of budgetLegends Do Live: $52,565 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $47,329 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRACKGIRLZ: $45,150 over 3y, 41% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $43,793 over 3y, 0.3% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $37,100 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC: $35,077 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $30,801 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana Black Expo Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $28,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFIREWORK FOUNDATION: $25,365 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSER FAMILIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeaching Young Women in Society Truth: $25,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Thinkubator: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP RISE ABOVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLadies Learning To Lead Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget5050 FOUNDATION: $20,848 over 2y, 13% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $20,250 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Self Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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…Central Indiana Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncLumina Foundation for…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…The Brave Heart Found…Strada Education Foun…Maurer Family Foundat…Samerian Foundation I…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN57× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 JD Finish Line Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JD Finish Line Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
67report 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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Find your warmest path to JD Finish Line Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 296 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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