· Private foundation
Madeira Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC | $107,470 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION | $73,929 |
| BIG CAR MEDIA INC | $20,000 |
| EAGLE CREEK NATURE CONSERVANCY & PRESERVATION INC | $9,800 |
| KHEPRW INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| BIGGER PICTURE FILM GROUP | $5,000 |
| HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA & KENTUCKY | $5,000 |
| ESKENAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE | $3,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS INC | $3,000 |
| THE STEM CONNECTION | $3,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $2,800 |
| LANTERN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PARENT-CHILD HOME PROGRAM | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) 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 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.
41 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- IFINDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $230k · revenue +18%
- BCBIG CAR MEDIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +75%
- HEHoosier Environmental Council Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- WHWOODSTOCK HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $138k · revenue -57% · 33% of their budget
- IMINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HPHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +116%
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.
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…
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.
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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,…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The parks alliance is a leader in developing and sustaining indianapolis parks and greenways by connecting resources to needs to better establish and maintain a safe and thriving community.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eagle Creek Nature Conservancy and Preservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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. 64 of the 81 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 INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds Eagle Creek Nature Conservancy and Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds BIGGER PICTURE FILM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBINA VISION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WRITERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
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 Madeira Fund 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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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