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Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of ROBERT & HELEN HADDAD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,764
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MILL RACE CENTER$1,764
IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LAWRENCE COUNTY CANCER PATIENT SERVICES: $2k → 11%SCAN INC: $3k → 12%SHELTERING WINGS: $5k → 5%LAWRENCE COUNTY CANCER PATIENT SERVICES: $900 → 11%SHELTERING WINGS: $1k → 5%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $10k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $10k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $5k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $5k → 16%DOWN SYNDROME INDIANA: $3k → 16%OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $5k → 13%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $5k → 16%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP: $7k → 16%SERVANTS AT WORK INC: $5k → 16%JUST FRIENDS: $2k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $1k → 13%REINS TO RECOVERY: $4k → 13%REINS TO RECOVERY: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 24 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
51

Total granted

$2.8M
$414k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+57%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HT
    HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $110k · revenue +30%
  • FH
    FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +2%
  • FH
    FAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • RH
    RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • IC
    Indianapolis Children's Choir
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue -17%

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.

1
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
2
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
3
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
4
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
5
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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6
Indiana Family to Family

Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…

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7
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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8
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
9
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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10
Indiana County Head Start Inc

Provide early child development to disadvantaged children

Education
11
Indiana Association of Realtors Inc

To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…

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12
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidscommons Columbus Community Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%2%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr25%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr25%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
1,259/9,989

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
46/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,122,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $151,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $110,000 · OtherRILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 · Other+29 more — $207,264 · Other+29 moreFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC — $17,500 · HealthCOLUMBUS REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $7,000 · HealthINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC — $5,000 · HealthTurning Point Inc — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesIYG INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesREINS TO RECOVERY INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesServants at Work Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $12,400 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · PhilanthropyINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $39,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING INITIATIVE INC — $12,500 · EducationHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationThe Oaks Academy Inc — $7,500 · EducationTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $5,000 · EducationORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationIndianapolis Children's Choir — $26,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $4,000 · Arts & CultureATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM — $2,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSTARFISH INC — $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,690,764Health$123,500Human Services$105,400Philanthropy$105,000Education$84,000Arts & Culture$60,000Youth Development$46,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $110,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $39,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTARFISH INC — $26,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEENWORKS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIYG INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREINS TO RECOVERY INC — $6,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetServants at Work Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL RACE CENTER INC — $3,764 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INDIANA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAWRENCE COUNTY CANCER PATIENT SERVICES INC — $2,900 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST FRIENDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM — $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SONG MISSION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…The Brave Heart Found…United Way of Central…Hoover Family Foundat…Lumina Foundation for…Hamilton County Commu…Pacers Foundation IncMaurer Family Foundat…Clarence E Custer and…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN62.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer

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 & Helen Haddad Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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