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Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$373kHealth$195kHuman Services$127kRecreation & Sports$105kEducation$77kPhilanthropy$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kAnimals$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Sheltering Wings$10,000
Springs Valley Education Foundation$10,000
Hamilton Center Foundation$10,000
Golisano Children's Museum of Naples$10,000
Gibson Family Center for Hospice$10,000
NAMI Collier County$10,000
Reggie Lewis Track and Field Athletic Center$10,000
Toby Keith Foundation$10,000
Wabash Valley Family Sports Center$10,000
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$10,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$10,000
Boys & Girls Club of Collier County$5,000
Hamblen Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc$5,000
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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
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

  • WV
    Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +50%
  • 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
  • WH
    WARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +97%
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
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…

—
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ValleyJohn McNichols Memorial Track: $25,000 · OtherJohn McNichols Memorial TrackAlzheimer's Association for Research: $25,000 · OtherAlzheimer's Association for ResearchNAMI 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…SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERING WIN…MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE WAY HOU…+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 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 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 budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetComfort Home Place Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetBROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetNate McMillan Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetR U 4 ME PET RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBeverlys Angels Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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