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Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$202kFood & Nutrition$40kCrime & Legal$33kEducation$32kHealth$24kYouth Development$22kRecreation & Sports$21kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$876k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$6,500
WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$5,500
ASCENT 121$5,000
GLEANER'S FOOD BANK INC$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES INDIANAPOLIS$3,000
THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC$3,000
TEACHER'S TREASURES INC$3,000
COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC$3,000
THE STEM CONNECTION$3,000
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 (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASCENT 121: $8k → 5%KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $5k → 8%KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $5k → 8%KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $3k → 8%NOBLE OF INDIANA INC: $4k → 16%NOBLE OF INDIANA INC: $3k → 16%NOBLE OF INDIANA INC: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $5k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $2k → 16%MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $2k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $6k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $4k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $4k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $5k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $3k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $5k → 16%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $2k → 16%KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA: $2k → 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$344k · 17 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$344k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+85%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & LegalCommunity 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

  • AL
    Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +56%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +180%
  • A1
    ASCENT 121 INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CW
    CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • NA
    NORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +309%

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
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

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
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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6
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
7
Indiana Chapter of National Children's Alliance Inc

Support child advocacy centers in indiana.

Human Services
8
Children's Advocacy Center of Southeastern Indiana

We help children who have been abused, assaulted, or been witness to a crime. the children's advocacy center of southeastern indiana is a child-friendly nonprofit corporation created to minimize the trauma suffered by victims of child abuse

Youth Development
9
Indiana Legal Services Inc

The mission of ILS is to use the law to fight poverty and racism, empower clients, and improve access to justice.

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
Community Action of East Central Indiana

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

Human Services
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is North America World Literacy Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr15%25%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr26%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr15%19%10–20yr13%23%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr26%19%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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
13%
1,008/7,805

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 30 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASCENT 121 INC — $38,500 · Human ServicesASCENT 121 INCDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIA…COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INCWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INCKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM — $12,500 · Human ServicesKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMNoble Inc — $9,000 · Human ServicesNoble Inc+3 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $40,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA …Catholic Charities Indianapolis Inc — $13,000 · OtherCatholic Charities Indianapoli…JOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC — $10,000 · OtherJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INCPROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $6,500 · OtherPROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCH…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INC — $5,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY SHELTER — $5,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $4,000 · OtherTHE STEM CONNECTION — $8,000 · OtherTHE STEM CONNECTIONBest Buddies International Inc — $7,000 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc+2 more — $6,000 · Other+2 moreAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc — $58,500 · Community ImprovementAssistance League…HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsJAMESON INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $18,000 · Crime & LegalDISABILITY LEGAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC — $3,000 · Crime & LegalTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $12,000 · EducationNORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $1,500 · EducationJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · HealthDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC — $2,000 · Health
Human Services$146,000Other$104,500Community Improvement$58,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Crime & Legal$21,000Education$17,500Health$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc — $58,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT 121 INC — $38,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $33,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC — $26,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $20,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Charities Indianapolis Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM — $12,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJAMESON INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNoble Inc — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEM CONNECTION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lilly Endowment IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Hoover Family Foundat…United Way of Central…The Brave Heart Found…Samerian Foundation I…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Healthcare Initiative…Pacers Foundation IncLumina Foundation for…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN42.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Healthcare Initiatives Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education 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 Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.

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How do I get to Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation 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 30 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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