How much did Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

matters substancesubstance preventionprevention marionpre-kcare plusplus innovativeinnovative community-based

2019

readiness indicatorsindicators pilotadvancing youthyouth apprenticeshipsexpand governor'sgovernor's workforceworkforce cabinet

2020

marion schools-roundwarmbailmatters substancesubstance preventionprevention marionsaint joan

2021

marion schools-extensionmarion schools-roundfoodmatters substancesubstance preventionprevention mariongreater lafayette

2022

matters extensionpayrollaidsindianapolis urbanurban leaguereformed presbyterianreporting

2023

matters stageexpanded fafsafafsa enrollmentenrollment supportssupports partpart mattersherron

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 153 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k84 grants · $184k
$10k–50k27 grants · $542k
$50k–250k30 grants · $3.2M
$250k+12 grants · $10M

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$387M

Total assets

Largest grants

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc$2,000,000
The Mind Trust$1,350,000
WFYI$1,060,000
Newfields$1,000,000
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$1,000,000
Marian University$1,000,000
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Foundation$952,950
Dove Recovery House for Women Inc$500,000
Aspire Indiana Health Inc$500,000
Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation$387,000
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc$333,334
EdChoice$250,000
MSD of Warren Township$187,500
Victory College Prep$173,942
MSD of Wayne Township$171,566

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$98M · 184 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

184 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184

169

Total granted

$98M

$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+55%

Still filing today

58%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $967k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TM
The Mind Trust
8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +853%
BU
Butler University
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +16%
N
Newfields
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +48%

Funded once

IU
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2018 · $844k
TI
The Indianapolis Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +207%
GW
Governor's Workforce Cabinet
one grant, 2020 · $296k

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

04Your field

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 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

Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit

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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Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Intend Indiana Inc

Intend indiana advances comprehensive community development through innovative financing and development solutions that create and preserve affordable housing, support neighborhood revitalization efforts, and foster small business…

Housing & Shelter

Indiana University Research & Technology

The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…

Education

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

—

Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

Kipp Indianapolis Inc

Kipp indianapolis, inc. (kipp indy) is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools.

Education

Indianapolis Public Schools Education

The indianapolis public schools education foundation ("ipsef") serves indiana public school ("ips") students by securing resources to ensure the highest quality education experience possible.

Education

Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Primary Health Care Assoc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/233

the rest of the field

3,686/41,762

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.

05the grantee network

215 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

207/215

Grantees still filing

171/215

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$49,316,330Education$34,893,022Arts & Culture$7,848,050Health$7,009,245Community Improvement$2,799,453Human Services$1,667,659Philanthropy$1,507,913

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.

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.

The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN134.1× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable 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 organisation Richard M Fairbanks 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INDIANA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237001672 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INDIANA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

215 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

215 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc?

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