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The Patricia Schaefer Foundation Tr
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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FND | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND | $125,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS INC | $100,000 |
| WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| KIDSAVE | $100,000 |
| MUNCIE CIVIC THEATER | $100,000 |
| THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE | $100,000 |
| THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| 91 PLACE | $50,000 |
| YMCA | $50,000 |
| INDIANA YOUTH GROUP | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $746k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- GAGIVE A NOTE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +157%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +244%
- TVThe Villages of Indiana Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MPMUNCIE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLISone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE COone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
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…
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…
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
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.
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,…
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…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
The mission of Indianapolis Opera is to educate, inspire and entertain through the creation and presentation of musical storytelling for the Hoosier community.
The international center is a catalyst to inform, convene, and connect public, private, and civic global objectives in indiana. for nearly half a century, the international center has served as a guide to the world's cultural landscape and…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kidsave International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 57 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 MUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GIVE A NOTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCROFT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ZIONSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Alliance of Delaware County Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds IYG INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MASTERWORKS CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds 91 PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH LABRADOR RETRIEVER MISSION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATE OUR MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds AFGHAN WOMEN'S AND KIDS' EDUCATION & NECESSITIES 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: The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · George and Frances Ball Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · American Electric Power Foundation · Muncie Endurathon Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana 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 Patricia Schaefer Foundation Tr 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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