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Maurer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS (JFGI) | $40,807 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK | $25,000 |
| DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC | $16,030 |
| MITCH DANIELS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $15,904 |
| STIFEL CHARITABLE INC | $10,000 |
| KEYS 2 WORK INC | $5,355 |
| RECYCLEFORCE COLUMBUS INC | $3,690 |
| HOOVERWOOD INDIANAPOLIS JEWISH HOME INC | $2,075 |
| SPIRITS FOR SMILES INC | $1,440 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,198 |
| PEACE LEARNING CENTER | $1,165 |
| JOY'S HOUSE (AKA TMP ENTERPRISES INC) | $825 |
| INDY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC | $615 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF INDIANA | $583 |
| INDIANA BLACK EXPO INC | $550 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Maurer Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
Indiana University Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +97%- LSLITTLE STAR CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +70%
- KVKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TATindley Accelerated Schools Incone grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -11%
- IPINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +135%
- AEALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +77%
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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…
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,…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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.
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…
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
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.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is In Cure of Ms 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 36 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
244 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 244 of the 331 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITTLE STAR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Stifel Charitable Inc ↗
- Who funds KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY INDIANA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Indy Black Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MITCH DANIELS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY BRACKETT'S IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Black Expo Inc ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS2WORK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Hoover Family 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 Maurer Family Foundation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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