· Public charity
Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc
Our mission is to improve the lives of under insured children with physical deformities and other medical issues.
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $287k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $286,583 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $305,583 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,000 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH OHIO KENTUCKY & INDIANA | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE | $30,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FND | $25,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC | $15,900 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $15,383 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| TRINITY FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| THE MILK BANK | $10,000 |
| RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL SERVICES - I | $9,300 |
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 (FY17–23, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +104%
- PIPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY4× · 2018–2021 · $160k · revenue +4%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TRTHE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INCone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +9%
- CLCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $33k
- AAAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +68%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 36 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 HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent de Paul Our Lady of Grace Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC & BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ANNA'S CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES ↗
- Who funds SAM'S WISH INC ↗
- Who funds INTECARE INC ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MILK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
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: Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ayres Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% 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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