· Public charity
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
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.
The 490 grants below total $45,357,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $55,170,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,812,901 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $410k
- $10k–50k229 grants · $5.3M
- $50k–250k157 grants · $18M
- $250k+46 grants · $22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Horizon House Inc | $2,886,429 |
| The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation | $1,994,356 |
| We Bloom Inc | $1,200,000 |
| The Center for Mind-Body Medicine | $1,071,173 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis | $719,800 |
| Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center at Crooked Creek | $682,949 |
| Eskenazi Health Foundation | $534,954 |
| IUPUI University Library | $507,441 |
| Lustgarten Foundation | $500,000 |
| University of Southern California | $500,000 |
| Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc | $457,704 |
| Second Helpings Inc | $445,863 |
| Peace Learning Center | $441,128 |
| Englewood Community Development Corp | $425,945 |
| Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc | $408,211 |
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, $17.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
550 repeat relationships — 347 still active in FY2024, 203 since wound down; 123 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M 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
- IMINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +25% · 70% of their budget
- HHHORIZON HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +279% · 42% of their budget
- ICINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue ×14 · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- STSPEEDWAY TRAILS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue -53% · 76% of their budget
- BUButler Universityone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- BSBall State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $506k · revenue +51%
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.
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…
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,…
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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.
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.
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
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.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
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,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Youth Services Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roots International Ltd. 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
807 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. 807 of the 979 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 INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds WE BLOOM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Flanner House of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAY BICCARD GLICK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT CROOKED CREEK ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Indy Inc ↗
- Who funds Thomas Ridleys 1 Like Me Inc ↗
- Who funds SPEEDWAY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG CAR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds PACE INC ↗
- Who funds ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds STEP-UP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DREAM ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Martindale Brightwood Community Development Center ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR YOUTH 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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family 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 Indianapolis 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.