· Public charity
Massachusetts Avenue Community Development Corporation
To encourage, support and assist groups to engage in social, cultural, and economic redevelopment and rehabilitation in the mass.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RILEY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ICINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue ×14
- CACHATHAM ARCH NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +62% · 30% of their budget
- TDTHE DISTRICT THEATRE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +571%
Funded once
- EJELIAS J JACOBY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -60%
- FMFIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -5%
- NENEAR EAST AREA RENEWAL INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -59%
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 embassy theatre enriches the cultural life of the region by providing a wide range of arts and entertainment experiences in a historic venue.
To preserve, maintain and operate the benjamin harrison presidential site, located in indianapolis, indiana as a national historic landmark by the us dept of the interior.
The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…
Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.
The mission of the columbus indiana architectural archives is to collect, conserve and promote the use of records that document the architectural engineering and arts associated with built environments of columbus, indiana.
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.
Our mission is to present the rich medical history of Indiana by preserving the Old Pathology Building collecting medical artifacts and providing exhibits publications and programs.
To promote and encourage interest in historic residential and commercial real property in johnson county, indiana.
Activities related to the operating and restoration of the historic city market, as well as the preservation of the historic architectural character of the core of the city of indianapolis.
Phoenix theatre serves as a catalyst in the indianapolis region to help nurture new talent, showcase diverse voices, and engage audiences with unique, contemporary productions.
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
To return vacant and abandoned property to productive use in the city of indianapolis, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chatham Arch Neighborhood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 RILEY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS THEATRE FRINGE FE ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ARCH NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIAS J JACOBY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR EAST AREA RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATHENAEUM FOUNDATION 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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Massachusetts Avenue Community Development Corporation 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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