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Rjs Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rjs Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Housing & Shelter$6.0MEducation$181kReligion$153kHuman Services$73kHealth$49kEnvironment$49kPhilanthropy$1kYouth Development$50
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
$3,595
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC$2,414,418
AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES INC$26,950
NICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK INC (DBA NRN)$21,153
AGAPE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (AIM)$10,354
BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$6,000
THE O'CONNOR HOUSE$5,000
MEPHIBOSHETH MINISTRIES INC$3,595
SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC$2,760
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP$1,564
91 PLACE INC$1,500
FIND IGNITE TRANSFORM INC$1,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC$750
ASCENT 121 INC$521
HEARTPOINTE CHURCH$100
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 (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $2.4M → 5%SIMPLE CHANGES: $1k → 6%THE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $5k → 5%THE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $5k → 5%THE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $3k → 5%THE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $1k → 5%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $3k → 16%PURPOSEFUL LIVING: $500 → 5%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $2k → 16%91 PLACE INC: $2k → 16%PURPOSEFUL LIVING INC: $37k → 5%PURPOSEFUL LIVING INC: $26k → 5%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.
$3.6M · 10 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$3.6M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+6%

Still filing today

90%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON CO INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +40%
  • BC
    BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +57% · 37% of their budget
  • TO
    THE O'CONNOR HOUSE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • SA
    STEVEN AND SHENNA FERRY
    one grant, 2021 · $169k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $161k
  • CA
    CHAD AND DEANNA TEMPLE
    one grant, 2021 · $146k
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
Hope Alive Inc

Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitonal housing for homeless women with mental illness.

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2
Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network leverages the resources of houses of worship in the greater Indianapolis area to provide emergency shelter, food, case management, and aftercare services to families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Indiana Teen Challenge Inc

Residential Faith-based drug and alcohol recovery.

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4
His Helping Hands Ministries

Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.

Religion
5
Invade Transitional Home and Ministries Corp

Invade is a faith-based, 12-month residential recovery home for women. invade will give ladies a safe place to heal and find hope as they come out of addiction. our desire is that each lady would allow christ to invade her life in order…

Religion
6
Restoring Purpose Ministries

Restoring Purpose Ministries is committed to seeing the hurting, especially those battling in addiction or in recovery, restored to a place of purpose. RPM offers assistance to find the right rehab or program to assist in sobriety; RPM has…

Religion
7
Gilead House

The Gilead House mission is to transform the lives of mothers and their children through empowering life skills programs, mentoring and transitional housing. We provide an environment that reflects our faith in Gods love.The vision is that…

Housing & Shelter
8
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
9
Turning Point Inc

Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…

Health
10
Soul Purpose Ministries

Soul Purpose provides a safe, sober and stable living environment where men can begin the hard work of forgiving themselves, leaving their pasts behind and creating a new and hopeful future with the help of mentors, programs and Jesus…

Religion
11
His Hope Ministries Inc

Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.

Housing & Shelter
12
Oasis Counseling International

To provide to the general public the following services: 1) Individual Psychological Counseling, 2) Play therapy for children, 3)Marriage Counseling, 4) Psychological Evaluations, 5)Financial Counseling, 6)Career Counseling, 7)psychiatric,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascent 121 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lifehouse Ministries 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $2,414,418 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INCFAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON CO INC: $1,754,094 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON CO INC+6 more: $184,627 · Human ServicesBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,214,750 · Housing & ShelterBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY D…+1 more: $40,911 · Housing & ShelterNICARAGUA RESOURCE NETWORK INC (DBA NRN): $270,881 · OtherNICARAGUA RES…STEVEN AND SHENNA FERRY: $168,979 · OtherSTEVEN AND SH…Individual grant recipient: $161,452 · OtherIndividual gr…CHAD AND DEANNA TEMPLE: $146,421 · OtherCHAD AND DEAN…AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $46,950 · OtherAGAPE THERAPE…+8 more: $12,505 · OtherAGAPE INDIANS MINISTRIES INTL INC: $97,860 · ReligionMephibosheth Ministries Inc: $3,595 · ReligionADVOCATES FOR EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · EducationAgape Interfaith Ministries International Inc: $10,354 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $1,564 · EducationPREVAIL FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 · Philanthropy
Human Services$4,353,139Housing & Shelter$1,255,661Other$807,188Religion$101,455Education$31,918Philanthropy$1,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $2,414,418 over 1y, 36% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAMILTON CO INC: $1,754,094 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,214,750 over 5y, 37% of budgetTHE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $113,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetAGAPE INDIANS MINISTRIES INTL INC: $97,860 over 3y, 19% of budgetPurposeful Living Inc: $63,623 over 3y, 16% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES: $46,950 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAgape Interfaith Ministries International Inc: $10,354 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $4,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMephibosheth Ministries Inc: $3,595 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $1,564 over 1y, 0.0% of budget91 PLACE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREVAIL FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFIND IGNITE TRANSFORM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIMPLE CHANGES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartPointe Church Inc: $180 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Central…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncMibor Foundation IncHamilton County Commu…The Brave Heart Found…The Indianapolis Foun…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
United Way of Central Indiana IncIN25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Mibor Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Rjs Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rjs Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rjs Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rjs Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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