· Private foundation
Myers Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD HEALTHCARE - SPECIAL PATIENT SERVICES | $12,000 |
| INSIGHT HOUSING (FKA BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT) | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR STRESS AND RESILIENCE | $10,000 |
| SUSIES PLACE | $5,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| INDIANA TRIO | $5,000 |
| KNOT TODAY | $5,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PARK TUDORFOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| IPS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VOTEORG | $2,000 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS | $2,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $1,500 |
| GIRL TALK INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| WE NEED US FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +61% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 16 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- SHSTANFORD HEALTH CARE3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +61%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%- CFCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -50%
- BOBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY DBA STANFORD UNIVone grant, 2017 · $25k
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -29%
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.
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,…
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The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Indiana tech is a private, independent, and non-denominational university. students are prepared for active participation in the complex, global society of the 21st century and are motivated toward a life of significance and worth. about…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
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…
Our mission is to improve the lives of all indiana children by strengthening and connecting the people, organizations, and communities focused on kids and youth.
The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) advances and strengthens the competitive standing of its 29 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree granting colleges and universities. ICI works to ensure opportunity, access,…
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Ymca Foundation of Greater Indianapolis. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA Foundation of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds KNOT TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA TRIO INC ↗
- Who funds The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Private Industry Council ↗
- Who funds Affecting Our Community Through Service ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CHAPTER OF NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL TALK INCORPORATED ↗
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 · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Pacers Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc
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 Myers 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.
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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