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Sterrett Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sterrett 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.

$334k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$457kReligion$350kRecreation & Sports$321kArts & Culture$206kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$57kYouth Development$33kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$200,000
BUTLER UNIVERSITY$50,000
CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
GEIST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$20,000
TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS$11,314
SOUTH BRONX UNITED INC$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$10,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST MARGARETS HOSPITAL GUILD$1,500
IMPACT 100 INDY$1,250
USGA$100
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 (FY17–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE: $5k → 5%BLESSINGS IN A PACKPACK: $2k → 15%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $2k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $2k → 16%ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER: $2k → 16%JULIAN CENTER: $2k → 16%GLOBAL ORPHAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GLOBAL ORPHAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 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

ME
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
41

Total granted

$1.2M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+37%

Still filing today

48%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BU
    Butler University
    6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +32%
  • IG
    INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $101k · revenue +180%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue -32%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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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6
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing Inc

Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.

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7
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
8
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

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

Public Benefit
9
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
10
Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc

The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) advances and strengthens the competitive standing of its 29 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree granting colleges and universities. ICI works to ensure opportunity, access,…

Education
11
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

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

Health
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 College Mentors for Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 72 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)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEIST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $238,900 · OtherGEIST CHRISTIAN CHURCHFIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherFIRST TEE FOUNDATION INCINDIANAPOLIS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $200,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS CHILDRENS MUSEUMCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLCOOLWATER CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $98,600 · OtherCOOLWATER CHRISTIAN CHURCHTINDLEY SCHOOLS: $85,250 · OtherTINDLEY SCHOOLS+44 more: $229,690 · Other+44 moreButler University: $180,409 · EducationButler Universi…Indiana University Foundation: $28,222 · EducationIndiana Univers…Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $11,314 · Education+3 more: $4,000 · EducationINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $101,461 · Recreation & SportsSouth Bronx United Inc: $10,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3,550 · PhilanthropyVILLAGE OF MERICI INC: $27,750 · Housing & ShelterFORE BATTEN FOUNDATION: $17,975 · HealthST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC: $3,500 · HealthINDIANA PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE FATHERLESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$1,152,440Education$223,945Recreation & Sports$113,461Philanthropy$29,550Housing & Shelter$27,750Health$23,575Human Services$16,500

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 budgetButler University: $180,409 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $101,461 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $28,222 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE OF MERICI INC: $27,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORE BATTEN FOUNDATION: $17,975 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTindley Accelerated Schools Inc: $11,314 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetIMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $3,550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FATHERLESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARFISH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLIS ADAMS FOUNDATION INC: $640 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFATHERS AND FAMILIES RESOURCERESEARCH CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLES: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Downtown Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds Butler University ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds FORE BATTEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
  • Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FATHERLESS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lumina Foundation for…Central Indiana Commu…Maurer Family Foundat…Richard M Fairbanks F…The Brave Heart Found…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Hamilton County Commu…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…United Way of Central…
Lilly Endowment IncIN40.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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
    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.

    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 72 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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