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The Kroehler Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kroehler Family Foundation

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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$383kPhilanthropy$84kHousing & Shelter$9kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$2kHealth$1kEnvironment$800Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PETERS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$86,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA$5,000
FOCUS$1,200
SAFE SITTER$1,000
HSE FOUNDATION$1,000
INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION$500
WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES$300
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $500 → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $500 → 16%WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES: $300 → 16%SAFE SITTER: $1k → 16%SAFE SITTER: $1k → 16%SAFE SITTER: $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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$496k · 12 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +117% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$496k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +483%
  • SS
    SAFE SITTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +23%
  • WM
    WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -9%
  • NH
    NEURO HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $500
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
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
2
Indiana University Health Inc

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

Health
3
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
4
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…

—
5
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
6
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
7
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
8
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

—
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

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

Health
11
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

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

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETERS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $382,550 · OtherST PETERS UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST+11 more: $18,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $83,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTR…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE INC: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterSAFE SITTER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,300 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $1,000 · Human ServicesHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $800 · EnvironmentINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $800 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 · Health
Other$401,050Philanthropy$84,000Housing & Shelter$6,500Human Services$6,300Environment$800Arts & Culture$800Health$800

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $83,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE SITTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $100 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.

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.

Lumina Foundation for…Lilly Endowment IncGriffith Family Found…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Lumina Foundation for Education IncIN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Kroehler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kroehler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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