· Private foundation
Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDISON INSTITUTE DBA THE HENRY FORD | $30,000 |
| FLYING KITES | $23,900 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CINCINNATI AREA | $22,000 |
| MAKERS HUB | $15,000 |
| REVOLUTION WORKSHOP | $15,000 |
| HOOPS4KIDS INC | $12,200 |
| NORTHBAY EDUCATION INC | $11,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS OPERA | $10,000 |
| HERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| WOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE | $10,000 |
| THE LUNCHBOX FUND | $10,000 |
| INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC DBA INTREPID SEA-AIR-SPACE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ARTS AT LARGE INC | $10,000 |
| MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER | $10,000 |
| THE ARK | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 41% of Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 30 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
- TETHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +19%
- FKFLYING KITES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +40%
- TCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ISINDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INCone grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue +17%
- HFHENRY FORD MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $35k
- PCPlant Chicago NFPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +255%
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Makers Hub. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
168 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. 168 of the 199 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 THE EDISON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Simon Youth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Congo Square Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds ART21 INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FOOD AND DRINK ↗
- Who funds KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Plant Chicago NFP ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKERS HUB ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc
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 Robert & Toni Bader Charitable 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Northbay Education Inc — 28% of income from government
- Union City Music Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.