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The R B Annis Educational 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $433k
- $250k+1 grant · $505k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $505,000 |
| CONNER PRAIRIE | $151,000 |
| NEWFIELDS | $105,000 |
| THE MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM | $76,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS | $51,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| STERLING COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $10,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,250 |
| DISCOVERING BROADWAY INC | $5,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION | $4,250 |
| TRI-CITIES HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,975 |
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 (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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 +24% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- UOUniversity of Indianapolis4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
- CPConner Prairie Museum Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +17%
- EMEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TITHE INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $101k
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE RB ANNIS WATER RESOURCES INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $40k
- GHGRAND HAVEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION THRU GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.
The mission of the haan museum of indiana art is to preserve and share the best of indiana arts and the historic museum property; to broaden public awareness of indiana arts, american furniture, and classical architecture through…
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.
Our mission is to present the rich medical history of Indiana by preserving the Old Pathology Building collecting medical artifacts and providing exhibits publications and programs.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
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…
Intermuseum conservation association (ica-art conservation) protects, preserves, and enriches our shared heritage of art and material culture through conservation, preservation, and education.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana State Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art 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 58 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 62 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.
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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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lacy Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Ackerman 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 R B Annis Educational Foundation 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.
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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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