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Mac Fehsenfeld Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS | $18,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $18,000 |
| VILLAGES OF INDIANA | $10,000 |
| CALL OF LOVE | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| JOY'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PATACHOU FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| ROSE HULMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SHELTERING WINGS | $5,000 |
| METANOIA CENTER | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF YOUTH MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ARUNA PROJECT | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCALL OF LOVE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +35%
SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WMWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -9%
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +18%
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
We are a 12-month residential Christian ministry for men and women ages 18 and up who have drug and alcohol addictions or other life controlling issues. We seek to help men and women overcome those life controlling issues.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Global outreach ministries exists to bring transformation to the nations of latin america by training influential leaders, planting relevant churches, and mobilizing christ-followers to transform their communities.
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds CALL OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds METANOIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ARUNA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TRAINING FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds National Network of Youth Ministries ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The J E Fehsenfeld Family Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 Mac Fehsenfeld Family Foundation 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.
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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