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Samerian Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Education$12MArts & Culture$5.5MPhilanthropy$1.9MAnimals$1.6MCivil Rights$830kHealth$370kRecreation & Sports$272kCrime & Legal$272kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $246k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $411k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $640k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,000,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HAMILTON COUNTY$312,500
RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$150,000
RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$106,264
500 FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$100,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
INDIANA DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE$83,333
PACERS FOUNDATION$50,000
FREE PRESS INDIANA$50,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY HILLEL CENTER$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$30,000
CENTRAL INDIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH CONNECTIONS: $5k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%SYCAMORE SERVICES INC: $10k → 5%ALL-OPTIONS: $5k → 18%PREVAIL: $5k → 5%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE - SAFE HAVEN: $25k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE - SAFE HAVEN: $25k → 16%COBURN PLACE - SAFE HAVEN: $25k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%REACH FOR YOUTH: $5k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $8k → 16%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 16%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 16%INDIANA DIAPER BANK: $5k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $3k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $3k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $3k → 16%ASCENT 121: $5k → 16%KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA: $5k → 16%ASCENT 121: $5k → 16%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $16k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP: $10k → 16%DAMIEN CENTER: $5k → 16%MLK CENTER: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IN
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CA
DC
GA

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.

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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 Samerian 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.

Samerian Foundation 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 49 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
54

Total granted

$21M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+22%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +162%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +36%
  • 5F
    500 Festival Foundation Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue +65%
  • TN
    The Neurosurgical Atlas Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $167k · revenue +83%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $103k

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.

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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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
4
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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5
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
6
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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7
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
8
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
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Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesCharter and Independent Sch…Health Care Professional As…Professional & Trade Associ…Affordable Housing ProvidersFaith-Based Social ServicesPrivate Charitable Foundati…Community Development Organ…
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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr11%84%35–55yr14%5%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/106
the rest of the field
14%
11,263/80,779

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

105 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. 105 of the 148 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/105
Grantees still filing
57/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Indiana University Foundation — $10,240,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation+9 more — $181,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $5,150,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holoca…+8 more — $91,500 · Arts & CultureRILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $1,425,056 · OtherRILEY CHILDREN'S FOU…JEWISH FEDERATION — $335,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONINDIANA UNIVERSITY HILLEL CENTER — $200,000 · Other500 Festival Foundation Inc — $305,000 · Other500 Festival Foundat…The Neurosurgical Atlas Inc — $166,667 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $165,000 · OtherINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION — $166,000 · Other+108 more — $1,537,119 · Other+108 moreCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $1,615,000 · PhilanthropyPACERS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHumane Society for Hamilton County — $1,562,500 · Animals+1 more — $25,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 · Civil RightsINDIANA DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE INC — $83,333 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $15,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $400,000 · International+2 more — $6,500 · International
Education$10,421,000Arts & Culture$5,241,500Other$4,299,842Philanthropy$1,685,000Animals$1,587,500Civil Rights$498,333International$406,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation — $10,240,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $5,150,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $1,615,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County — $1,562,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $400,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget500 Festival Foundation Inc — $305,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Neurosurgical Atlas Inc — $166,667 over 1y, 18% of budgetINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION — $166,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $165,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $111,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA DEMOCRACY COLLECTIVE INC — $83,333 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetINDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INC — $83,333 over 1y, 57% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC — $71,667 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPACERS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSimon Youth Foundation Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINDIANA SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFREE PRESS INDIANA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY INDIANA — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCATCH THE STARS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEENWORKS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA LONGER TABLE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetINDIANA COALITION TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS WITH A PURPOSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMORNING LIGHT INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWHY AREN'T YOU SMILING INC — $12,080 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIYG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShepherd Community Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASCENT 121 INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSYCAMORE REHABILITATION SERVICES HENDRICKS COUNTY ARC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…The Brave Heart Found…United Way of Central…Maurer Family Foundat…Lumina Foundation for…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Hamilton County Commu…Hoover Family Foundat…
Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN105.4× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family 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 Samerian 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Samerian Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Samerian Foundation Inc 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 148 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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