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Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation at a glance

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Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$202kFood & Nutrition$40kCrime & Legal$33kEducation$32kHealth$24kYouth Development$22kRecreation & Sports$21kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$887k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
AYS INC$6,500
KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM$6,500
PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$6,500
GLEANER'S FOOD BANK INC$5,000
100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES INDIANAPOLIS$5,000
THE STEM CONNECTION$4,000
ASCENT 121$4,000
COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC$3,000
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, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASCENT 121: $8k → 5%KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $7k → 8%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: $3k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $2k → 16%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN II INC: $2k → 16%MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH: $3k → 16%WESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $6k → 16%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $5k → 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%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: $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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$394k · 18 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$394k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+85%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & LegalCommunity 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

  • AL
    Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +56%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +180%
  • A1
    ASCENT 121 INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CW
    CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • NA
    NORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +309%
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
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
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
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
4
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
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
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
7
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
8
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
9
Elevate Indianapolis Inc

Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community

Education
10
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
11
Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc

Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…

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12
Indiana Youth Institute Inc

Our mission is to improve the lives of all indiana children by strengthening and connecting the people, organizations, and communities focused on kids and youth.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 32 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENT 121 INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesASCENT 121 INCDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIA…COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INCWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INCKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $19,000 · Human ServicesKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMNoble Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesNoble Inc+4 more: $11,500 · Human Services+4 moreGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $45,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCCatholic Charities Indianapolis Inc: $18,000 · OtherCatholic Charities Indianapolis I…PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $13,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL…JOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INCAYS INC: $6,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY SHELTER: $5,000 · OtherCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE STEM CONNECTION: $12,000 · OtherTHE STEM CONNECTIONBest Buddies International Inc: $7,000 · Other+3 more: $10,000 · Other+3 moreAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $68,500 · 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$164,500Other$131,500Community Improvement$68,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Crime & Legal$21,000Education$17,500Health$14,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $68,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $42,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $29,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM: $19,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Indianapolis Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTEACHERS TREASURES INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEM CONNECTION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN P CRAINE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJAMESON INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNoble Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

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

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 Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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-PF 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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