· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc
The mission of Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis is to promote the vision of a vibrant, engaged, inclusive, and sustainable Jewish community by serving as its central philanthropic, planning, community engagement, and unifying partner.
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 72 grants below total $4,013,209 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,526,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $513,417 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $914k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $972k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center | $692,195 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $464,809 |
| Jewish Community Relations Council | $319,250 |
| Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis | $309,777 |
| Goldman Union Camp Institute (GUCI) | $255,500 |
| Indiana University Foundation - Indianapolis | $132,100 |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art-Newfields | $128,488 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Central Indiana Inc | $125,000 |
| Hillel Foundation at Indiana University Inc | $120,260 |
| Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc | $98,150 |
| Hooverwood Living | $95,742 |
| Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra | $85,000 |
| Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation | $78,282 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $59,180 |
| Rollins College | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
- IJINDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +76%
- JCJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +25% · 92% of their budget
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- IFINDIANAPOLIS FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $120k
- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $101k · revenue +40%
- ASAmerican Saddle Horse Museum Association Incone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -37%
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.
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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To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is In Cure of Ms Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 163 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME GUILD ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS 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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 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.