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Shaheen Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $26,851 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $5,000 |
| ESKENAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $5,000 |
| WOMEN4CHANGE INDIANA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- UOUniversity of Indianapolis6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
- TIThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Association3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- TBThe Bay Park Conservancy Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +112%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +101%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANAone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.
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…
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,…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
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…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is The Bay Park Conservancy 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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 32 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 University of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN4 CHANGE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC ↗
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- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lacy Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Samerian Foundation Inc · Strada Education 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 Shaheen Family 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.
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.
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