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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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$692k
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 2024.

Education$15MPhilanthropy$8.8MHealth$5.4MArts & Culture$2.9MReligion$2.4MYouth Development$700kCivil Rights$606kRecreation & Sports$408kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 72 grants below total $4,013,209, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,526,626 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $513,417 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $914k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $972k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%United Jewish Centers of MetroWest: $5k → 16%Jewish Family And Children's Services: $10k → 10%Blue Card Inc: $5k → 17%Jewish Community Center Of North America: $11k → 17%Jewish Community Center Of North America: $10k → 17%Jewish Community Center Of North America: $10k → 17%At Your School Child Services Inc (AYS Inc): $30k → 16%Patachou Foundation Inc: $25k → 16%American Red Cross of Greater Indpls: $6k → 16%At Your School Child Services Inc (AYS): $25k → 16%At Your School Child Services Inc (AYS Inc): $20k → 16%At Your School Child Services Inc (AYS): $10k → 16%Hooverwood Guild: $100k → 16%Hooverwood Guild: $55k → 16%Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc: $41k → 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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 102 repeat orgs$914k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
35

Total granted

$31M
$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • IJ
    INDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +76%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +25% · 92% of their budget
  • Indiana University Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • IF
    INDIANAPOLIS FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $120k
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $101k · revenue +40%
  • AS
    American Saddle Horse Museum Association Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -37%
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 Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
2
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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3
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
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

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…

Health
5
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
6
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
8
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

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

Health
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
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/139
Grantees still filing
102/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED: $8,792,099 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION…Indiana University Foundation: $1,573,663 · EducationIndiana University FoundationPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $658,750 · EducationPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $425,985 · Education+13 more: $696,118 · Education+13 moreJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis: $2,454,804 · OtherJewish Community Relations …BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $1,082,587 · OtherBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION …INDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREGATION INC: $855,659 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREG…THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $453,650 · Other+80 more: $4,616,255 · Other+80 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,675,280 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERAT…+12 more: $561,470 · Philanthropy+12 moreINDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC: $4,397,742 · HealthINDIANAPOLIS JE…Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $328,900 · HealthEskenazi Health…Eisenhower Medical Center: $229,900 · Health+13 more: $229,201 · HealthIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc: $522,968 · Arts & CultureNewfields Inc: $454,303 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $251,525 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $163,190 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $131,920 · Arts & CultureINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $127,700 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND FILM INC: $126,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $120,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $119,600 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $546,062 · Arts & CultureHasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis: $1,876,781 · Religion+2 more: $81,055 · ReligionBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $687,710 · Youth Development+1 more: $7,500 · Youth Development
Education$12,146,615Other$9,462,955Philanthropy$6,236,750Health$5,185,743Arts & Culture$2,718,768Religion$1,957,836Youth Development$695,210

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED: $8,792,099 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,675,280 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC: $4,397,742 over 8y, 16% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis: $2,454,804 over 8y, 92% of budgetHasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis: $1,876,781 over 8y, 13% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,573,663 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $1,082,587 over 2y, 91% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $687,710 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $658,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc: $522,968 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNewfields Inc: $454,303 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $453,650 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $425,985 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $328,900 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY INC: $314,160 over 3y, 17% of budgetGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC: $312,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $251,525 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $229,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $163,190 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $132,082 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $131,920 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc: $128,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $127,700 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $126,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $120,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $119,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $119,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $117,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $104,150 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $99,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $98,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $92,218 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $85,570 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAYS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DAYTON INC: $80,670 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $74,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $70,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Foundation at Miami University: $70,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetIndiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $68,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $68,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSEF GINGOLD FUND FOR THE INTL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS: $67,500 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Lilly Endowment IncMaurer Family Foundat…Hamilton County Commu…United Way of Central…Lumina Foundation for…Christel DeHaan Famil…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Arts Council of India…
Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN58.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 163 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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