· Private foundation
The Froderman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $528k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sheltering Wings Center for Women | $136,893 |
| Friends of Tenwek Inc | $82,000 |
| Oaks Academy Inc | $75,000 |
| Crooked Creek Food Pantry | $68,580 |
| Union Hospital Foundation Inc | $65,576 |
| Sisters of our Lady of Mount Carmel of Terre Haute | $50,000 |
| MAP International | $50,000 |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $49,673 |
| Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc | $44,301 |
| The Gathering Church | $29,999 |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of the Wabash Valley | $26,274 |
| St Patrick Catholic Church | $25,000 |
| Indiana Special Olympics | $20,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Terre Haute | $10,000 |
| Mary Lee Maier Community Panry Company | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $708k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of The Froderman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k 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
- TOThe Oaks Academy Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +0%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC3× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +146%
- ACASBURY COLLEGE4× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HBHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- CRCROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $109k · revenue +18%
- FPFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -4%
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.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
The staff and volunteers of Catholic Charities Indianapolis are called by the Gospel to uphold the dignity of all people. Guided by Catholic social teaching, we consider it a privilege to deliver compassionate and caring service to help…
Providing primary health care to low-income residents.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Meals on wheels is the leading privately funded organization promoting dignity and independent living for the homebound, through volunteer delivery of nutritious meals in the greater indianapolis area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Rehabilitation 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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
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 HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENWEK INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds League of Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 14th & Chestnut Community Center ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds CHEMO BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE PREVENTIVE HEALTH MAINTENANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CANINE ASSISTANT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Kid Kare Project 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education 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 Froderman 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.
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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