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Teachers' Treasures Inc

Teachers' Treasures obtains and distributes school supplies free to teachers of students in need.

$4.8M
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $2,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,760,936 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,758,936 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$500
MSD WAYNE TOWNSHIP$355
MSD WARREN TOWNSHIP$275
BEECH GROVE CITY SCHOOLS (5380)$250
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$245
MSD LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP$225
ON MY WAY PRE K$150
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MSD WAYNE TOWNSHIP: $355 → 16%MSD WARREN TOWNSHIP: $275 → 16%BEECH GROVE CITY SCHOOLS (5380): $250 → 16%INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $245 → 16%INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%ON MY WAY PRE K: $150 → 16%MSD LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP: $225 → 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 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
Independence Academy

The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…

Education
3
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

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4
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
5
Steel City Academy Inc

Steel city academy will empower the students of gary with the most rigorous academic skills, cultural fluency and depth of character so they can choose from boundless opportunities and strengthen the community of gary.

Education
6
Adelante Schools Inc

Adelante schools is committed to continuously improving the educational outcomes for its scholars in solidarity with families and our community. we are working to create a joyous neighborhood school, preparing all scholars to graduate from…

Education
7
Intrinsic Schools

The mission of intrinsic schools is to create a revolutionary new school model in order to 1) prepare all students for postsecondary success and world-changing endeavors; and 2) provide the education community with a roadmap to sustainable…

Education
8
Institute for Quality Education Inc

The organization provides tuition assistance to low-income students, serves as a model for research and legislation, and encourages all schools to improve by introducing competition into the system. the organization conducts research and…

Education
9
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
10
Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

The school's objective is to provide an excellent, christ-centered education, equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership, and service.

Education
11
Indiana Non-Public Education Association

To promote education and provide assistance to member schools and to facilitate communication and understanding between non-public schools and the state and public sector.

Education
12
Thrival Academy Indy Inc

Thrival academy indy is a humanities-focused high school which exposes students to diverse global perspectives through experiential learning and identity exploration in order to incubate educated global citizens and passionate community…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matchbook Learning Schools of Indiana; the most unlike its peers is Edna Martin Christian Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

74 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/74
Grantees still filing
56/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE OF INDIANA: $500 · OtherSTATE OF INDIANAMSD OF WAYNE TOWNSHIP: $355 · OtherMSD OF WAYNE TOWNSHIPMSD OF WARREN TOWNSHIP: $275 · OtherMSD OF WARREN TOWNSHIPBEECH GROVE CITY SCHOOLS: $250 · OtherBEECH GROVE CITY SCHOOLSINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $245 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLSMSD OF LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP: $225 · OtherMSD OF LAWRENCE TOWNSHIPUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $150 · Philanthropy
Other$1,850Philanthropy$150

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $150 over 6y, 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA 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.

United Way of Central Indiana IncIN92.7× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Mind Trust Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Second Helpings Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · University of Indianapolis · The Brave Heart 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 Teachers' Treasures Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teachers' Treasures Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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