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Kraabel Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Kraabel Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$39k
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, FY2020 to 2021.

Religion$95kHuman Services$68kEducation$13kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KING OF GLORY LUTHERAN CHURCH$39,076
DAMAR FOUNDATION$30,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,000
LUTHER COLLEGE$3,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$2,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK$1,500
RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
THE VILLAGE OF MERICI$1,000
WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES$1,000
BACK TO BASICS PROJECT INC$600
THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION$500
ASCENSION ST VINCENT FOUNDATION$500
THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$500
GOOD NEWS MINISTRIES$500
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DAMAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 16%DAMAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 16%THE JULIAN CENTER: $500 → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $1k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 14 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$187k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+45%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • DF
    Damar Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +164%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +147%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT KOKOMO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FH
    FAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +45%
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
    one grant, 2020 · $750
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 Frankfort Inc

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

Health
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
6
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
7
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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8
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
9
Indiana University Health Arnett Inc

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

Health
10
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

—
11
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
12
Indiana University Health Inc

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Luther College. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KING OF GLORY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $93,576 · OtherKING OF GLORY LUTHERAN CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $5,500 · OtherST VINCENT KOKOMO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,950 · Other+5 moreDamar Foundation Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesDamar Foundation Inc+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesLUTHER COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthFAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthVILLAGE OF MERICI INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$112,026Human Services$63,000Education$11,000Health$6,500Housing & Shelter$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDamar Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE OF MERICI INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INDIANA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Richard M Fairbanks F…Maurer Family Foundat…Hamilton County Commu…United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Richard M Fairbanks Foundation IncIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Kraabel Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kraabel Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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