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Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inc

The mission of the rotary foundation is to enable rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$286kHuman Services$205kYouth Development$105kEducation$95kHealth$90kCrime & Legal$85kHousing & Shelter$50kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $207,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL MUTTS SERVICE DOGS$25,000
PRETTY PASSIONATE HANDS$25,000
WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$25,000
CHILD ADVOCATES$25,000
THE CHILDRENS THERAPLAY FOUNDATION$10,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES INC$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INDIANA DIAPER BANK: $25k → 16%SCHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $100k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS: $25k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $25k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $10k → 16%91 PLACE: $25k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $1k → 16%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS: $10k → 16%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis 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, 100% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$421k · 4 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
30

Total granted

$421k
$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CC
    CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $301k · revenue +94%
  • DR
    DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +408%
  • 1B
    100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • DC
    Dayspring Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • MI
    Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • JP
    JOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +36%

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
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
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
3
Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…

Human Services
4
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
5
Kipp Indianapolis Inc

KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…

Education
6
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
7
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
8
Community Action Program Inc of Western Indiana

To Develop and Provide resources for the purpose of assisting Low-Income Individuals through a variety of programs in Benton, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion, And Warren Counties in Indiana.

Human Services
9
Groundwork Indy Inc

GWIs mission is to foster the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic & social…

Community Improvement
10
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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11
Faith in Indiana

Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…

Human Services
12
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Career Learning Employment Center for Veterans Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Housing & Residentia…Neighborhood Development Or…Professional Theatre Compan…Community Equity Organizati…Employee Benefit TrustsIndiana Civic & Policy Advo…Faith-Based Childcare Cente…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%24%5–10yr15%29%10–20yr13%27%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr26%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%49%5–10yr15%17%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr26%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
1,008/7,791

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

39 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. 39 of the 40 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA — $301,000 · Human ServicesCHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $35,000 · Human Services100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INCWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INCINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC91 PLACE INC — $25,000 · Human Services91 PLACE INC+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $25,000 · EducationTEACHERS TR…Elevate Indianapolis Inc — $25,000 · EducationElevate Ind…PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE — $25,000 · EducationPARAMOUNT S…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $25,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON W…Central Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp — $10,000 · EducationCentral Ind…DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $35,000 · HealthDOVE RECO…Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People — $25,000 · HealthBrooke's …MORNING LIGHT INC — $10,000 · HealthMORNING L…THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE CHILD…CENTER OF WELLNESS FOR URBAN WOMEN INC — $10,000 · HealthCENTER OF…CHILD ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalKNOT TODAY INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSaint Florian Center Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPRETTY PASSIONATE HANDS INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INCJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis — $10,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · OtherFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc — $25,000 · OtherMetropolitan Indianapoli…KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $10,000 · OtherDayspring Center Inc — $25,000 · OtherDayspring Center IncGRASSROOT PROJECTS — $25,000 · OtherGRASSROOT PROJECTSSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE…Medical Mutts Service Dogs Inc — $25,000 · OtherMedical Mutts Service Do…FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES — $10,000 · OtherCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $10,000 · OtherALLIES INC — $10,000 · Other
Human Services$431,000Education$110,000Health$90,000Crime & Legal$70,000Youth Development$60,000Community Improvement$60,000Other$230,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA — $301,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDayspring Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGRASSROOT PROJECTS — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevate Indianapolis Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget91 PLACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRETTY PASSIONATE HANDS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSaint Florian Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMORNING LIGHT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOT TODAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetASCENT 121 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER OF WELLNESS FOR URBAN WOMEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…The Brave Heart Found…Hoover Family Foundat…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Indiana Youth Institu…Lumina Foundation for…Samerian Foundation I…Ayres Foundation Inc
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN68.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Ayres 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 Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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