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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$25,000
MEDICAL MUTTS SERVICE DOGS$25,000
CHILD ADVOCATES$25,000
PRETTY PASSIONATE HANDS$25,000
THE CHILDRENS THERAPLAY FOUNDATION$10,000
FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES INC$10,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $25k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%91 PLACE: $25k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%CHIN COMMUNITY OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $10k → 16%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS: $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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 83%.

Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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%
+28%

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
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

  • 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

  • PS
    PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +398%
  • PE
    PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -27%
  • BP
    Brooke's Place for Grieving Young Peoplegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INC91 PLACE INC: $25,000 · Human Services91 PLACE INCWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INCINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE: $25,000 · EducationPARAMOUNT S…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON W…Elevate Indianapolis Inc: $25,000 · EducationElevate Ind…TEACHERS TREASURES INC: $25,000 · EducationTEACHERS TR…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 …CENTER OF WELLNESS FOR URBAN WOMEN INC: $10,000 · HealthCENTER OF…THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE CHILD…MORNING LIGHT INC: $10,000 · HealthMORNING L…CHILD ADVOCATES INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalKNOT TODAY INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $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 INCFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis: $10,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · OtherMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $25,000 · OtherMetropolitan Indianapoli…KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $10,000 · OtherMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc: $25,000 · OtherMedical Mutts Service Do…GRASSROOT PROJECTS: $25,000 · OtherGRASSROOT PROJECTSDayspring Center Inc: $25,000 · OtherDayspring Center IncSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE…ALLIES INC: $10,000 · OtherFREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES: $10,000 · OtherCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $10,000 · Other
Human Services$431,000Education$110,000Health$90,000Crime & Legal$70,000Youth Development$60,000Community Improvement$60,000Other$230,000

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 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 budgetPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetElevate Indianapolis Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF THE FAR EASTSIDE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRASSROOT PROJECTS: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDayspring Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPRETTY PASSIONATE HANDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budget91 PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetINDIANA DIAPER BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALLIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKNOT TODAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSaint Florian Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER OF WELLNESS FOR URBAN WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Indiana Clubhouse NFP Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMORNING LIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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

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 Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.

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

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