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Mothershead Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCHARD SCHOOL | $12,250 |
| FRANKLIN COLLEGE | $11,250 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS | $10,185 |
| INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CROWN HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,972 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOO | $2,500 |
| INDIANA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HOLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| INDY HUMANE | $1,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB | $1,000 |
| FORD WILSON RACE OF CHAMPIONS | $376 |
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 (FY22–22, $2k) 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501 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
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +173%
- TCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +237%
- FCFranklin College of Indiana5× · 2020–2024 · $89k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FWFORD WILSON RACING CHAMPIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CHCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -9%
- SSSCOTTTISH SOCIETY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana State Fair Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Son Foundation 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 60 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin College of Indiana ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana State Fair Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Saltsburg Fund Charitable Trust Xxxxx4005 · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Ayres Foundation Inc · Hubbard Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick 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 Mothershead 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.