· Private foundation
Quest For Excellence 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington Township Schools Foundat | $71,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Assistance League of Indianapolis | $28,000 |
| Indiana Blind Childrens Foundation | $25,360 |
| East 10th Children Youth Center | $25,000 |
| Paws and Think Inc | $10,000 |
| Medical Mutts service Dogs Inc | $9,443 |
| Indigent families food assistance | $3,670 |
| American Heart Association | $157 |
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 (FY18–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- FHFAIR HAVEN INC2× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +196% · 52% of their budget
- WTWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +9%
- IBINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- FHFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $335k · revenue -17%
- HHHORIZON HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
- LSLittle Sisters of the Poorone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
Assist indiana provides advocacy, specialized services, interventions and support to trauma victims. utilizing proven efforts through trauma informed care approach along with best practices, we eliminate the negative effects of violence in…
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…
IndyHumane's mission is to improve animal welfare in central Indiana. We are committed to ending the cycle of pet overpopulation, providing affordable pet ownership, and ensuring the well-being, health and safely of all animals in our…
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
To work as one in helping animals irrespective of breed, location or circumstance, while also supporting the people who love animals.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Haven Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 FAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST 10TH CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS & THINK INC ↗
- Who funds Medical Mutts Service Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds SOAR INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GENNESARET FREE CLINIC 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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Quest For Excellence 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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