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Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$290kHuman Services$143kPhilanthropy$95kEducation$76kRecreation & Sports$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kHousing & Shelter$35kHealth$30kAnimals$28kOther$327k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $155k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
John McNichols Memorial Track$25,000
Community School of Naples$20,000
Toby Keith Foundation$10,000
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$10,000
Wabash Valley Family Sports Center$10,000
Springs Valley Education Foundation$10,000
Reggie Lewis Track and Field Athletic Center$10,000
Golisano Children's Museum of Naples$10,000
Hamilton Center Foundation$10,000
NAMI Collier County$10,000
Sheltering Wings$10,000
Gibson Family Center for Hospice$10,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$10,000
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$5,000
Carmel United Methodist Church$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $35k → 14%Sheltering Wings: $10k → 5%Middle Way House: $5k → 18%Wounded Warrior Project: $10k → 14%Middle Way House: $5k → 18%Patachou Foundation: $1k → 16%Becerly's Angels: $2k → 10%Hamilton Center Foundation: $20k → 19%Hamilton Center Foundation: $10k → 19%The Shelter for Abused Women & Children: $10k → 10%The Shelter for Abused Women & Children: $5k → 10%Hamilton Center Foundation: $10k → 19%The Shelter for Abused Women & Children: $5k → 10%Hamilton Center Foundation: $10k → 19%Hamilton Center Foundation: $5k → 19%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
TN
NC
OK
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$790k · 24 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
21

Total granted

$790k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WV
    Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +34%
  • COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AA
    Alzheimer's Association for Research
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CH
    Comfort Home Place Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · 38% of their budget
  • DB
    David Benner Memorial Fund CO Pacers Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Humane Society for Hamilton County

Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…

Animals
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
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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4
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
5
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
6
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

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

Health
7
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
8
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
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
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

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

Health
11
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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12
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
23/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Flaster Mattingly Family Fund — $45,000 · OtherFlaster Mattingly Family FundBrown County Playhouse — $37,500 · OtherBrown County PlayhouseHospice of the Wabash Valley — $35,000 · OtherHospice of the Wabash ValleyAlzheimer's Association for Research — $25,000 · OtherAlzheimer's Association for ResearchJohn McNichols Memorial Track — $25,000 · OtherJohn McNichols Memorial TrackNAMI Collier County Inc — $15,000 · OtherHarry Chapin Food Bank Collier County Center — $14,180 · OtherComfort Home Place Inc — $20,000 · OtherST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $15,000 · OtherBrown County Humane Society Inc — $17,500 · Other+29 more — $170,140 · Other+29 moreNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME — $275,000 · Arts & CultureNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL …GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesHAMILTON CENTE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FO…MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE WAY HOU…SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERING WIN…+2 more — $3,100 · Human ServicesCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $75,000 · PhilanthropyCentral I…THE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TOBY …COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC — $24,500 · EducationSimon Youth Foundation Inc — $20,000 · EducationIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $16,000 · EducationSPRINGS VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHAMBLEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTARY FIRE DEP — $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL — $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$419,320Arts & Culture$290,000Human Services$143,100Philanthropy$95,000Education$75,500Recreation & Sports$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$42,500

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 budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME — $275,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMBLEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTARY FIRE DEP — $30,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC — $24,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetComfort Home Place Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrown County Humane Society Inc — $17,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Collier County Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGS VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club — $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $6,590 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNate McMillan Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetR U 4 ME PET RESCUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBeverlys Angels Inc — $2,100 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Lilly Endowment IncCollier Community Fou…The Indianapolis Foun…Lumina Foundation for…Central Indiana Commu…Duke Energy FoundationThe George F and Mari…Lacy FoundationThe League Club IncSamerian Foundation I…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Hamilton County Commu…
Lilly Endowment IncIN21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Lacy Foundation · The League Club Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community 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 Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 60 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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