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The Mind Trust Inc

The mind trust strives to provide every student in indianapolis and beyond with access to an excellent education.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$975k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$54MPhilanthropy$6.3MYouth Development$2.8MArts & Culture$934kHuman Services$652kPublic Benefit$348kCommunity Improvement$224kScience & Tech$131kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 53 grants below total $7,093,266 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,415,087 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,321,821 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.3M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$975,000
CIRCLE CITY PREPARATORY INC$671,860
ENROLL INDY INC$575,000
STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC$550,000
TNTP INC$550,000
PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE$410,000
INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC$307,500
HERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC (HERRON CLASSICAL SCHOOLS)$285,000
GLOBAL PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC$262,960
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC$250,000
COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC$250,000
BELIEVE SCHOOLS INC$250,000
CHRISTEL HOUSE ACADEMY INC$171,900
MATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA INC$163,848
RISE UNITED$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 5%ASIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 5%MILES OF SMILES DAYCARE: $10k → 5%ASIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 5%EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $70k → 16%EVOLVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%AYS INC: $145k → 16%MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH: $20k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $71k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $28k → 16%THE GIFTED GOWN: $6k → 16%NOVA X-STREAM INC (NYLA NOVA FOUNDATION): $8k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 16%FREEDOM ACADEMY INC: $97k → 16%LAFAYETTE SQUARE AREA COALITION INC (INTERNATIONAL MARKET PLACE COALITION): $30k → 16%INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE COALITION: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
CO
MO
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61M · 63 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
62

Total granted

$61M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
0%

Still filing today

94%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Teach for America Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +1%
  • TI
    TNTP INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +136%
  • PS
    PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +398%

Funded once

  • RE
    ROCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1.2M · revenue ×116
  • NE
    NEAR EASTSIDE INNOVATION SCHOOL CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +40%
  • RE
    ROCHESTER EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $391k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Great Public Schools for Indy Inc

We fight for education justice and opportunities for indianapolis students by training and electing bold leaders, holding them accountable for their policy decisions, and organizing our network to influence and improve our public schools.

Education
2
Thrival Academy Indy Inc

Thrival academy indy is a humanities-focused high school which exposes students to diverse global perspectives through experiential learning and identity exploration in order to incubate educated global citizens and passionate community…

Education
3
International School of Indiana Inc

The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.

—
4
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
5
Indiana Charter Innovation Center Inc

As an indiana nonprofit corporation, the corporation hosts educational training, seminars, webinars, workshops, conferences, and other public forums to provide a place for learning among public education professionals and leaders to foster…

Education
6
Independence Academy

The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…

Education
7
Steel City Academy Inc

Steel city academy will empower the students of gary with the most rigorous academic skills, cultural fluency and depth of character so they can choose from boundless opportunities and strengthen the community of gary.

Education
8
Indiana Schools of Excellence Inc

To provide a strong academic curriculum and broad cultural experiences in a supportive, innovative, and challenging environment that fosters academic success, good citizenship, and creates life-long learners.

—
9
Intrinsic Schools

The mission of intrinsic schools is to create a revolutionary new school model in order to 1) prepare all students for postsecondary success and world-changing endeavors; and 2) provide the education community with a roadmap to sustainable…

Education
10
Indianapolis Academy of Excellence Inc

The academy's mission is to develop students into citizens who will become the next generation of entrepreneurs. we provide a caring and creative environment grounded in the belief of promoting the total development of each child: moral,…

—
11
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
12
Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

The school's objective is to provide an excellent, christ-centered education, equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership, and service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach Indy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miles of Smiles Childcare Ministry. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Development Organ…Community Health CentersClassical Music Organizatio…Healthcare Industry Associa…Youth & Recreational Sports…Christian Evangelical Minis…Industry Trade AssociationsIndiana Cultural & Communit…Food Insecurity ReliefFood Assistance & Hunger Re…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 11 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%31%5–10yr15%24%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr10%9%35–55yr28%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%21%5–10yr15%25%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr10%3%35–55yr28%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/140
the rest of the field
12%
1,273/10,746

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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 140 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/116
Grantees still filing
76/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Teach for America Inc — $7,427,500 · EducationTeach for America IncTNTP INC — $3,452,391 · EducationTNTP INCPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE — $3,389,500 · EducationPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCEENROLL INDY INC — $3,060,000 · EducationENROLL INDY INCHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,850,500 · EducationHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INCRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $2,753,500 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONBELIEVE CIRCLE CITY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,789,477 · EducationCIRCLE CITY PREPARATORY INC — $1,659,360 · Education+52 more — $23,089,304 · Education+52 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $5,704,277 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $750,000 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUN…+2 more — $91,000 · PhilanthropyEMPOWERED FAMILIES INC — $1,226,383 · OtherPROMISE PREP INC — $905,000 · OtherROCHESTER EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP LLC — $390,875 · OtherPILOTED SCHOOLS — $305,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $300,000 · OtherEVERY GIRL CAN STEM INC — $242,500 · Other+40 more — $1,414,403 · OtherSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $2,950,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARFISH INC — $820,183 · Youth Development+6 more — $126,250 · Youth DevelopmentAYS INC — $145,125 · Human ServicesShepherd Community Inc — $98,500 · Human ServicesFreedom Academy I Inc — $96,500 · Human ServicesEDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesLAFAYETTE SQUARE AREA COALITION — $40,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON YOUTH INC — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $34,000 · Human ServicesTHE 74 MEDIA INC — $267,000 · Arts & CultureASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureIndiana Latino Institute Inc — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNext Generation Initiative Inc — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $47,000 · Arts & CultureMelanatED Leaders — $347,500 · Public Benefit
Education$49,471,532Philanthropy$6,545,277Other$4,784,161Youth Development$3,896,433Human Services$569,125Arts & Culture$489,000Public Benefit$347,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTeach for America Inc — $7,427,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $5,704,277 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTNTP INC — $3,452,391 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE — $3,389,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetENROLL INDY INC — $3,060,000 over 7y, 51% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $2,950,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetHERRON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,850,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $2,753,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBELIEVE CIRCLE CITY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,789,477 over 6y, 23% of budgetCIRCLE CITY PREPARATORY INC — $1,659,360 over 4y, 10% of budgetADELANTE SCHOOLS INC — $1,485,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetMATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA — $1,441,348 over 5y, 100% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $1,362,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetROOTED SCHOOL INC — $1,277,769 over 5y, 35% of budgetEMPOWERED FAMILIES INC — $1,226,383 over 4y, 100% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc — $1,200,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMarian University — $1,172,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA — $1,004,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLIBERTY GROVE SCHOOLS INC — $940,950 over 3y, 99% of budgetPROMISE PREP INC — $905,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $896,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetEDUCATION UNITED INDY INC — $850,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetSTARFISH INC — $820,183 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS — $789,100 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $780,250 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGLOBAL PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $756,710 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $750,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDISON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $692,371 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetChristel House Academy Inc — $682,400 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PATH SCHOOL INC — $651,892 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTOGETHERED INC — $634,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetTEACH INDY INC — $613,159 over 2y, 100% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $555,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetINVENT LEARNING HUB INC — $450,250 over 5y, 10% of budgetNEAR EASTSIDE INNOVATION SCHOOL CORP — $400,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetALLEGIANT PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $379,522 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMelanatED Leaders — $347,500 over 3y, 67% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $345,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSPEDACTS INC — $300,000 over 2y, 89% of budgetCOLD SPRING SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC — $267,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetVICTORY COLLEGE PREP INC — $260,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEVERY GIRL CAN STEM INC — $242,500 over 1y, 90% of budgetGOODWILL EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDIANA MATH & SCIENCE ACADEMY NORTH INDIANAPOLIS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAYS INC — $145,125 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetURBAN ACT ACADEMY INC — $131,688 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSANKOFA SCHOOL OF SUCCESS INC — $131,120 over 3y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Indianapolis Foun…United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…Teachers Treasures IncRichard M Fairbanks F…Lumina Foundation for…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…National Urban League…Eli Lilly and Company…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN88.7× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Teachers Treasures Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · National Urban League Inc · Eli Lilly and Company Foundation

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 Mind Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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