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The Bindley Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Bindley Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$274kHealth$188kPhilanthropy$86kRecreation & Sports$77kHuman Services$47kArts & Culture$43kFood & Nutrition$32kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF PHX PEDIATRIC HEALTH INITIATIVE$30,000
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP$27,500
EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC$12,500
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
LIVE LIKE BRAUN FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI$10,000
CUBS CHARITIES CUBS FOR A CURE$10,000
THE TRENT TYLER FOUNDATION$5,500
IWIN FOUNDATION$5,000
THE 174 FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$5,000
JOY'S HOUSE$3,500
ANGELIAM FOUNDATION$3,000
SECOND HELPINGS INC$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AO1 FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE WILL TO LIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE WILL-TO-LIVE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE: $500 → 5%FOSTER SUCCESS: $2k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%FOSTER SUCCESS: $1k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PATACHOU FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%A LONGER TABLE: $1k → 16%REACH FOR YOUTH: $750 → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $4k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $4k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $4k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $3k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $3k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $3k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%IWIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%IWIN 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

MT
IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
AZ
NC
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$658k · 27 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$658k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

67%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BL
    BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +273%
  • Northwestern University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +33%
  • ED
    EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • RC
    RILEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BU
    Butler Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +47%
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 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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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
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
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
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
7
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
8
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
9
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Inc

The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. 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

41 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. 41 of the 60 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
19/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF PHX PEDIATRIC HEALTH INITIATIVE: $97,500 · OtherCITY OF PHX PEDIATRIC HEALTH INITIATIVEBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · OtherBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 · OtherCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS …COMUNIDAD DEL ESQUIPULTECO AUSANTE CORP: $15,000 · OtherCUBS CHARITIES CUBS FOR A CURE: $12,500 · OtherWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $10,500 · OtherSECOND HELPINGS INC: $17,500 · OtherSECOND HELPINGS INC+23 more: $109,300 · Other+23 moreBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $170,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORPLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYMarian University: $17,250 · EducationMarian UniversityButler University: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH …EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyEL DORADO …THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOV…Northwestern University: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…TMP Enterprises Inc: $19,500 · Human ServicesA LONGER TABLE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesTHE WILL TO LIVE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesAO1 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER SUCCESS: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesSundance Institute: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNewfields Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePhoenix Children's Hospital: $10,000 · HealthHEROES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · HealthTHE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT: $5,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $3,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,750 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,500 · Health
Other$303,800Education$223,250Philanthropy$77,000Recreation & Sports$75,000Human Services$60,250Arts & Culture$42,500Health$38,750

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 budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $170,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEL DORADO FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $17,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA LONGER TABLE INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetButler University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEROES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILL TO LIVE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT: $5,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE 174 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAO1 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNewfields Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER SUCCESS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOR YOUTH INC: $750 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 BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Marian University ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Butler University ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILL TO LIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TYLER TRENT FOUNDATION TRENT ↗
  • Who funds THE 174 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AO1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN 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.

The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…United Way of Central…Lumina Foundation for…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Dorsey Foundation IncMaurer Family Foundat…The Brave Heart Found…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Hamilton County Commu…OneAmerica Foundation…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · OneAmerica 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 The Bindley Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bindley Family 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 60 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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