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Junior League of Indianapolis Inc

The junior league of indianapolis is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Human Services$84kEducation$77kHousing & Shelter$31kYouth Development$23kArts & Culture$16kHealth$14kAnimals$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $65,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $93,970 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,470 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE$20,000
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,500
HARMONY IN HORSES$15,000
AUSOME INDY$8,500
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING$6,500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $68k) 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.

area typical 10%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $20k → 16%PAWS AND THINK INC: $8k → 16%EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION INC: $15k → 16%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC: $25k → 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.

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.

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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
2
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
3
Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…

Human Services
4
Indiana Resource Center for Families With Special Needs Inc

The mission of insource is to provide parents, families, individuals and service providers in the state of indiana the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for…

Education
5
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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Communities in Schools Indiana

Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Youth Development
7
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
8
Child Advocates Inc

Child advocates champions children and families throughout indiana by advocating for justice, access to opportunity, and fostering well-being for children.

Crime & Legal
9
Iris Family Support Center Inc

Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
10
Kipp Indianapolis Inc

KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…

Education
11
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
12
Indiana Family to Family

Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Villages of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think 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

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $36,975 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORPTindley Accelerated Schools Inc — $30,000 · EducationTindley Accelerated Schools IncTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $10,000 · EducationTEACHERS TREASURES INCThe Villages of Indiana Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Villages of Indiana IncCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INCExodus Refugee Immigration Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesExodus Refugee Immigration IncAusome Indy — $8,500 · Human ServicesAusome IndyPAWS & THINK INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesPAWS & THINK INCBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,500 · Housing & ShelterBROOKSIDE COM…INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,500 · Arts & CultureHARMONY IN HORSES INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentJAMESON INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SALVATION ARMY — $9,025 · OtherTHE SALVA…TEENWORKS INC — $7,500 · OtherTEENWORKS…James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association — $5,357 · OtherJames Whi…
Education$76,975Human Services$76,000Housing & Shelter$30,500Arts & Culture$15,500Youth Development$15,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Other$21,882

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $36,975 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Villages of Indiana Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY IN HORSES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetExodus Refugee Immigration Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAMESON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAusome Indy — $8,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetPAWS & THINK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTEENWORKS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association — $5,357 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…Hamilton County Commu…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…United Way of Central…Maurer Family Foundat…The Brave Heart Found…Lumina Foundation for…Hoover Family Foundat…Samerian Foundation I…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN33.9× affinity14 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 · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · 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 Junior League of 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

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    How do I get to Junior League of Indianapolis Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Junior League of Indianapolis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $78k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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