· Private foundation
The Brave Heart Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k154 grants · $582k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $214k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| AVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS | $33,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER | $28,000 |
| IWIN (INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC) | $20,000 |
| HORIZON HOUSE | $15,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA | $12,500 |
| EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| THE MILK BANK | $10,000 |
| INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE | $10,000 |
| PACK AWAY HUNGER | $10,000 |
| UPSTREAM PREVENTION INC | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INKY INC | $10,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $9,000 |
| BARTRAM MEMORIAL FUND | $9,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
213 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 100 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHHORIZON HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +279%
- BPBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People7× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +62%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- FFFDTN FOR LUTHERERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $12k
- GLGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +76%
- IIIYG INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +68%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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,…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Provide services in response to individual need
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
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.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
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…
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…
Alternatives incorporated strives to eradicate domestic and sexual violence through education, prevention, and intervention in central indiana. the organization exists to promote the right of all persons to live in a loving, caring, safe…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indiana Crisis Assistance Response Team Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
244 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 244 of the 362 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds THE MILK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMESON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds JACKSON CENTER FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENT 121 INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS CHAPLAINCY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COALITION TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT ROSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS TREASURES INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Ayres Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Brave Heart Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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