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Shiel Sexton 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$56kPhilanthropy$53kEducation$45kCommunity Improvement$44kHuman Services$19kHealth$15kEnvironment$13kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$711k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC$25,000
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM$25,000
CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC$5,000
CHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION INC$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%CHH FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 5%CHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 16%HEART CHANGE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%HEART CHANGE MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 16%DOWN SYNDROME INDIANA: $50 → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $400 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 19 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
61

Total granted

$162k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IC
    INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue ×14
  • KI
    KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • BU
    Butler University
    6× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TA
    THE ADVANCEMENT CENTER FOR WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • IR
    Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -3%
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
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
2
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
3
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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4
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
5
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

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…

Health
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
10
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

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

Health
11
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
12
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Red Door Cancer Agency Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Campus Charities 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

47 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. 47 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INCINDY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 · OtherINDY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCUNITED WAY: $14,891 · OtherUNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ADVANCEMENT CENTER FOR WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS: $6,000 · Other+55 more: $78,050 · Other+55 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $32,485 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …AMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CAMPU…+1 more: $50 · PhilanthropyButler University: $9,000 · EducationButler Uni…WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EducationWASHINGTON…Marian University: $5,500 · EducationMarian Uni…Indiana University Foundation: $2,500 · EducationIndiana Un…Franklin College of Indiana: $1,000 · EducationCharlotte Preparatory School Inc: $1,000 · EducationAce Mentor Program of Indiana Inc: $1,000 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementHEART CHANGE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 · Human ServicesCHH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $150 · Human ServicesThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureIndiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $12,500 · Environment
Other$171,441Philanthropy$37,535Education$27,500Community Improvement$17,500Human Services$15,050Arts & Culture$14,500Environment$12,500

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 budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $32,485 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART CHANGE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetButler University: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Repertory Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZON LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPUS CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget500 Festival Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHENDRICKS REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget500 Festival Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Preparatory School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Indianapolis Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAce Mentor Program of Indiana Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANGRAM INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INDIANA INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A DOG INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Maurer Family Foundat…Lumina Foundation for…OneAmerica Foundation…Richard M Fairbanks F…Allen Whitehill Clowe…
Lilly Endowment IncIN45× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · OneAmerica Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation 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 Shiel Sexton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shiel Sexton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to Shiel Sexton Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Shiel Sexton 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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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