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Ratio Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDY CRITERIUM INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FND | $3,000 |
| ASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| INDIANA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROFRAM OF INDIANA INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
University of Illinois Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +127%- ICIndependent Colleges of Indiana Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +14%
- NTNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +243%
Funded once
- CICANSTRUCTION INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +0%
- IIIllinois Institute of Technologyone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
- HHHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +288%
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.
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…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana State Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Organization of Minority Architects. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 15% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 50 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Ace Mentor Program of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds CANSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS ↗
- Who funds INDY CRITERIUM INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds 24 Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds HERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MAJOR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WISH INC ↗
- Who funds The 1852 Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harrison Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
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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 · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Ratio 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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