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Pacers Foundation Inc

The foundation is dedicated to raising funds in support of youth-oriented charities and programs across the state of indiana.

$669k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.1MHuman Services$81kEducation$18kFood & Nutrition$10kEmployment$8kPublic Benefit$8kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $491,458, the rows itemized in this filing. The $668,804 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $177,346 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
THE PARKS ALLIANCE OF INDIANAPOLIS$80,000
LISTEN TO OUR FUTURE$50,000
FAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT CROOKED CREEK$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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH COUNTY$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
HOMEBOUND MEALS INC$10,000
I SUPPORT THE GIRLS$10,000
GIRLS INC OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $336k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS FOR FREEDOM: $5k → 11%REACH FOR YOUTH: $5k → 8%RESPECT 360: $5k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $8k → 12%TRANSFORMED BIRTH SERVICES: $15k → 19%SHELTERING WINGS: $10k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $5k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $5k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $5k → 5%NOBLE INC: $5k → 16%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 16%THE JULIAN CENTER: $8k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $5k → 16%I SUPPORT THE GIRLS: $10k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN INC: $8k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5k → 16%ST MARYS CHILD CENTER INC: $5k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%AYS INC: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $5k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $5k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 16%MURPHY MENTORING GROUP: $5k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $8k → 16%DONESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $8k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 16%ARC OF INDIANA: $25k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $13k → 16%FOSTER SUCCESS: $10k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $9k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%STRUGGLE MADE US: $8k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $5k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $5k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP: $16k → 16%PREVENT CHILD ABUSE INDIANA: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 37 repeat orgs$887k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
71

Total granted

$1.1M
$649k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+36%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $72k · revenue +37%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +180%
  • IY
    INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +763%
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • JP
    JAKKS PACIFIC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
5
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

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.

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6
Elevate Indianapolis Inc

Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community

Education
7
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

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8
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
9
The International Center Inc

The international center is a catalyst to inform, convene, and connect public, private, and civic global objectives in indiana. for nearly half a century, the international center has served as a guide to the world's cultural landscape and…

—
10
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
11
University of Indianapolis

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.

Education
12
Indiana County Head Start Inc

Provide early child development to disadvantaged children

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/114
Grantees still filing
75/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $72,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS IN…GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $59,492 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCFAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT CROOKED CREEK: $50,000 · OtherFAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER A…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEJAKKS PACIFIC INC: $50,000 · OtherJAKKS PACIFIC INCSALVATION ARMY: $37,500 · OtherCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · Other+48 more: $427,987 · Other+48 moreINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $354,201 · Recreation & SportsINDIANAPOLIS PARKS …CAMPTOWN INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMPTOWN INC+2 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesINDIANA YOUTH INS…THE ARC OF INDIANA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIAN…SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERING WINGS …DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE…Shepherd Community Inc: $22,500 · Human ServicesShepherd Communit…ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CHILD C…INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $19,550 · Human ServicesINDIANAPOLIS URBA…COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesIYG INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMED BIRTH SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $14,000 · Human Services+18 more: $121,000 · Human Services+18 moreCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Indiana…WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyWABASH VALLEY C…+3 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyLISTEN TO OUR FUTURE INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLISTEN TO…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS…INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIANA C…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BSA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUSH CO INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $7,500 · Youth Development+4 more: $20,000 · Youth Development+4 moreTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalINDIANA COALITION TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $17,500 · Crime & LegalPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSTOP THE VIOLENCE INDIANAPOLIS INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $12,500 · EducationEXPLORADOOR INC: $12,500 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationKipp Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 · EducationCreating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · EducationIndianapolis Freedom School Partnership: $5,000 · EducationMINORITY ENGINEERING PROGRAM OF INDIANAPOLIS: $5,000 · EducationCATCH THE STARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationWGU CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationSUPER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$776,979Recreation & Sports$394,201Human Services$345,550Philanthropy$315,000Youth Development$195,000Crime & Legal$112,500Education$106,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $354,201 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $72,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $59,492 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN TO OUR FUTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPTOWN INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIANA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE: $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEENWORKS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA COALITION TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $16,622 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIYG INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH FIRST: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMED BIRTH SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTMIX INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEXPLORADOOR INC: $12,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD CENTER ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCreating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOSTER SUCCESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncThe Brave Heart Found…Maurer Family Foundat…Indiana Youth Institu…Lumina Foundation for…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Samerian Foundation I…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN106.1× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pacers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pacers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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