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Joined for Good Inc

JOINED FOR GOOD INC, doing business as brackets for good, is a charitable organization focused on activating new donors and increasing awareness for other nonprofit organizations through competitive, online fundraising at no cost.

$2.9M
Granted FY2018
107
Grants FY2018
13
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 107 grants below total $2,456,504 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,851,859 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $395,355 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k45 grants · $325k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
$11,239
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DODGE NATURE CENTER$120,344
GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC$116,161
BRACE FOR IMPACT 46$96,550
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST$90,551
NEUROHOPE OF INDIANA$90,089
HUMANE SOCIETY HAMILTON COUNTY$84,854
BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$81,780
4 PAWS FOR ABILITY$73,991
AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING$71,201
L'ARCHE ATLANTA$68,593
CAMP JUMP START$61,248
ABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY$58,238
THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT$45,215
PARK CENTER$39,358
FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC$38,972
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $11k → 11%COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 12%L'ARCHE ATLANTA: $69k → 14%FUSE INC: $11k → 5%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $74k → 9%FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC: $39k → 14%ECDC AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $8k → 21%EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION: $34k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $13k → 16%BEACON OF HOPE CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 16%PAWS AND THINK INC: $18k → 16%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA: $11k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
3
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Connections for Life

Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.

Health
7
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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8
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

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9
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
10
Lifetime Housing Group Inc

Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.

Food & Nutrition
11
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mason Community Players 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Homeless Services & ShelterLand Conservation Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Child and Family ServicesChristian Youth CampsDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Pantries & AssistanceSubstance Abuse TreatmentClassical Music EnsemblesFallen First Responder Supp…Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringHospice Care ServicesWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Education Equity LeadershipAt-Risk Youth MentoringProfessional Ballet Compani…Cancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…South Asian Cultural and Sp…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Jewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,458

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.

03the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/102
Grantees still filing
81/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER — $120,344 · OtherTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTERAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES — $71,201 · OtherAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCESABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY — $58,238 · OtherABERG CENTER FOR LITERACYA VISION OF REDEMPTION INC — $37,264 · OtherBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $81,780 · OtherBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated — $32,148 · OtherPARK CENTER INC — $39,358 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC — $33,804 · Other+42 more — $470,810 · Other+42 moreRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $90,551 · HealthRonald McDonald Hou…NEUROHOPE OF INDIANA INC — $90,089 · HealthNEUROHOPE OF INDIAN…LIVING WELL FOUNDATION — $61,248 · HealthLIVING WELL FOUNDAT…HOOSIER BURN CAMP INC — $37,980 · HealthHOOSIER BURN CAMP I…TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $34,795 · HealthTURNSTONE CENTER FO…Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People — $33,669 · HealthBrooke's Place for …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $28,360 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…+5 more — $43,279 · Health+5 moreGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC — $116,161 · AnimalsGOLDEN RETRIEVER…Humane Society for Hamilton County — $84,854 · AnimalsHumane Society f…WHISKERS-N-PAWS INC — $38,795 · AnimalsWHISKERS-N-PAWS …PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED — $25,174 · AnimalsPAWS ATLANTA INC…INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $24,782 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL WO…Stray Rescue of St Louis — $14,342 · Animals+5 more — $43,568 · Animals+5 more4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $73,991 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABIL…FRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA INC — $68,593 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF LARC…FAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC — $38,972 · Human ServicesFAITH & GRIEF M…Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc — $33,937 · Human ServicesExodus Refugee …PAWS & THINK INC — $17,607 · Human ServicesPAWS & THINK IN…HARTFORD CITY MISSION INC — $14,270 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $12,862 · Human ServicesFUSE INC — $11,047 · Human Services+7 more — $55,536 · Human Services+7 moreBrace for Impact 46 Inc — $96,550 · InternationalFood for His Children — $36,858 · InternationalCHILDREN'S FUTURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $28,237 · InternationalTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT — $45,215 · Youth DevelopmentThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc — $22,176 · Youth DevelopmentJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $18,661 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM ALIVE INC — $15,063 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $13,537 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE FOR GIRLS INC LOUISVILLE GIRLS LEADERSHIP — $10,601 · Youth DevelopmentINDIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC — $8,262 · Youth DevelopmentEAST 10TH CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTERINC — $7,545 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $6,861 · Youth DevelopmentCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE — $38,114 · Arts & CultureSide by Side Studio Inc — $18,961 · Arts & CultureKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $18,326 · Arts & CultureTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL — $9,732 · Arts & CultureIndianapolis Children's Choir — $8,870 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $7,004 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $6,522 · Arts & Culture
Other$944,947Health$419,971Animals$347,676Human Services$326,815International$161,645Youth Development$147,921Arts & Culture$107,529

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER — $120,344 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC — $116,161 over 1y, 60% of budgetBrace for Impact 46 Inc — $96,550 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $90,551 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEUROHOPE OF INDIANA INC — $90,089 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County — $84,854 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $81,780 over 1y, 15% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $73,991 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES — $71,201 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF LARCHE ATLANTA INC — $68,593 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLIVING WELL FOUNDATION — $61,248 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY — $58,238 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT — $45,215 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPARK CENTER INC — $39,358 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH & GRIEF MINISTRIES INC — $38,972 over 1y, 33% of budgetWHISKERS-N-PAWS INC — $38,795 over 1y, 70% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE — $38,114 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOOSIER BURN CAMP INC — $37,980 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $34,795 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetExodus Refugee Immigration Inc — $33,937 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC — $33,804 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People — $33,669 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $29,611 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $29,023 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $28,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S FUTURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $28,237 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED — $25,174 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $24,782 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc — $22,176 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOTTAGE COVE COMPANY — $21,305 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC — $20,228 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSide by Side Studio Inc — $18,961 over 1y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC — $18,905 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $18,661 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $18,326 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMASON COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC — $17,726 over 1y, 17% of budgetPAWS & THINK INC — $17,607 over 1y, 11% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $16,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER — $15,620 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOSSOMS OF HOPE THE HOWARD COUNTY CHER — $15,207 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDREAM ALIVE INC — $15,063 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis — $14,342 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARTFORD CITY MISSION INC — $14,270 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS CENTER FOR HEALING — $13,663 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $13,537 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPromise Ranch Therapeutic Riding — $13,348 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTEAM TYPE 1 INC — $12,630 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC — $11,917 over 1y, 2.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lilly Endowment IncUnited Way of Central…Maurer Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Hamilton County Commu…Lumina Foundation for…Salesforce FoundationThe Brave Heart Found…St Vincent Hospital a…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN44.3× affinity22 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 · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Salesforce Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center 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 Joined for Good 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.

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no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
  • The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Affirming Youth Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $155 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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