· Private foundation
Mary Elizabeth Ober Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN COUNTY PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
| HILLTOP CHRISTIAN CAMP | $10,000 |
| REILLY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REACH COLUMBUS | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC | $10,000 |
| ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL | $8,800 |
| AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING | $7,500 |
| LOVE CHAPEL ECUMENICAL ASSEMBLY OF | $4,000 |
| OGILVILLE CHURCH DAYCARE | $4,000 |
| WFHBBLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY RADIO | $3,500 |
| GOD'S GRACE INC | $3,000 |
| JOY'S HOUSE ADULT DAY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| MORNING DOVE THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $2,400 |
| CROWN HILL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCShepherd Community Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +52%
- HCHilltop Christian Camp Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +110%
- 9P91 PLACE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- SPST PETERS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- RCRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
- OCOGILVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Residential Faith-based drug and alcohol recovery.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Teaming with families to provide high quality child care and education services for all children.
Supports independence by providing a comfortable, familiar environment for socialization, physical /mental exercise, creative exploration, nursing supervision, and community engagement.
Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
The mission of The Hope Community Development Corporation is to develop faith, caring, and sustainable neighborhoods through quality affordable housing and diverse supportive services for residents
KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…
The arc of indiana is committed to all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities realizing their goals of living, learning, working and fully participating in the community.
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Hilltop Christian Camp Inc ↗
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- Who funds HUTSON SCHOOL INC DBA FORTUNE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Bloomington Community Radio Inc dba WFHB ↗
- Who funds AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds READY TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Elizabeth Ober Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Elizabeth Ober Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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