· Public charity
Pacers Foundation Inc
The foundation is dedicated to raising funds in support of youth-oriented charities and programs across the state of indiana.
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.
The 21 grants below total $491,458 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $668,804 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $177,346 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE PARKS ALLIANCE OF INDIANAPOLIS | $80,000 |
| FAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT CROOKED CREEK | $50,000 |
| LISTEN TO OUR FUTURE | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY INDIANA DIVISION | $25,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $22,408 |
| INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE | $19,550 |
| INDIANA YOUTH GROUP | $15,500 |
| GREAT COMMISSION CHURCH OF GOD - YOUNG MEN INC | $15,000 |
| EXPLORADOOR INC | $12,500 |
| THE GURL CODE | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $10,000 |
| IMAGINATION STATION | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 14 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $72k · revenue +37%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +180%
- IYINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +763%
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- JPJAKKS PACIFIC INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Listen to Our Future 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 125 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 INDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT CROOKED CREEK ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LISTEN TO OUR FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COALITION TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IYG INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMED BIRTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORADOOR INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES 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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Samerian 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 Pacers 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.