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Sagamore Institute Inc
An indianapolis-based nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization or "think tank." it is our mission to research and analyze difficult issues and to connect the best ideas with leaders who can transform them into smarter policy and improved practice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $1,050,261 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,883,846 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,833,585 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $401k
- $250k+1 grant · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR SERVING LEADERSHIP | $648,931 |
| DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY | $188,704 |
| INDIA COLLECTIVE | $135,700 |
| FAMILY HOPE | $76,926 |
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, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +120% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- EIElevate Indianapolis Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $766k · revenue +645% · 73% of their budget
- ICIndia Collective Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $270k · revenue +20% · 42% of their budget
- FHFAMILY HOPE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $257k · revenue +38% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- PGPRACTICAL GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONSone grant, 2021 · $309k
- CICATALYST INITIATIVES (HIGHLAND REAL ESTATE GROUP)one grant, 2017 · $189k
NeighborHealth Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +543%
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.
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To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
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Our mission is to participate in Gods redemption of culture by educating, training, and leading Christ-centered individuals in the public square.
City Changers strives to reach the impoverished community with the love of Jesus Christ by offering community and religious services.
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
We are a global community of Christians committed to serving others as well as possible, using evidence and reason. We inspire and equip others to do likewise. Our activities aim to promote effective giving, support high-impact career…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Conciliums mission is to build capacity and resilience into Gospel advance so others may hear and live as we see Christians of all ages engaged in serving the Lord with boldness, legitimacy, and competence.
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc and the most unlike its peers is The George Edward Durell Foundation. 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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 COMMONWEALTH IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds India Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Clapham Education Group ↗
- Who funds NeighborHealth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AT WORK ON PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds FOR COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INDIANA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PURPOSE LLC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE CITY FELLOWS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE EDWARD DURELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OSPREY RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEX OPERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Constructing Our Future ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sagamore Institute 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.
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.