· Private foundation
The Swisher Foundation Inc CO Jeffrey Bodkin
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eiteljorg Museum Foundation | $23,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Second Presbyterian Church Westminster Neighborhood Ministries | $17,000 |
| YMCA Foundation of Greater Indianapolis | $15,500 |
| Noble | $11,500 |
| Coburn Place | $11,500 |
| KIPP Indianapolis College Preparatory (Palmer Charter School) | $11,500 |
| Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc | $11,500 |
| Mayo Clinic Foundation | $11,500 |
| Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis | $11,500 |
| Riley Hospital Childrens Foundation | $11,500 |
| Meals on Wheels | $11,500 |
| Second Helpings | $11,500 |
| IU Foundation School of Nursing - | $11,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis4× · 2017–2020 · $208k · revenue +7%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +37%
- YFYMCA Foundation of Greater Indianapolis5× · 2021–2025 · $93k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- EEEiteljorg Endowment on Behalf of Gene Manley - (3 of 5)one grant, 2024 · $20k
- TCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
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,…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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.
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 Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
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…
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.
GWIs mission is to foster the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic & social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA Foundation of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR YOUTH EXPLORATION ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Indy Honor Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEWHEELIN COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIVIERA CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY COMMISSION ON 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Arthur Jordan 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 Swisher Foundation Inc CO Jeffrey Bodkin 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.
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