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Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$306k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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 Legacy Fund 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

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’22
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’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$898kPhilanthropy$558kEducation$412kHuman Services$277kYouth Development$120kCrime & Legal$100kReligion$73kRecreation & Sports$55k
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $286,583, the rows itemized in this filing. The $305,583 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $226k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$15,383
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$51,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE$30,000
MAKE-A-WISH OHIO KENTUCKY & INDIANA$30,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$25,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FND$25,000
RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC$15,900
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$15,383
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
THE MILK BANK$10,000
TRINITY FREE CLINIC$10,000
RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL SERVICES - I$9,300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NAPLES DISTRICT COUNCI: $19k → 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $25k → 14%NOBLE OF INDIANA: $14k → 16%AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $30k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 14%A KID AGAIN - INDIANA CHAPTER: $25k → 16%A KID AGAIN - INDIANA CHAPTER: $20k → 16%SAM'S WISH INC: $15k → 5%PREVAIL INC: $50k → 5%PREVAIL INC: $50k → 5%PREVAIL INC: $50k → 5%THERAPEAUTIC AND BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF IN: $25k → 16%THERAPEAUTIC AND BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF IN: $25k → 16%PREVAIL INC: $10k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 5%St Vincent de Paul Noblesville: $10k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $10k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $8k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $8k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 62%.

Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+28%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +104%
  • PI
    PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $160k · revenue +4%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +9%
  • CL
    CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • AA
    AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +68%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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2
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
3
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
4
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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8
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
10
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
11
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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12
Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center Inc

The indiana hemophilia and thrombosis center, inc. is committed to providing the highest quality comprehensive services and holistic care to patients with bleeding, clotting and other hematologic disorders, and to their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; 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.
05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $558,162 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUND…James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $103,000 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial A…ANNA'S CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $26,861 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $105,674 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $102,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEAR…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $102,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CH…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $95,383 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY…RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthRIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDA…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $35,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF…SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $27,000 · Health+5 more: $50,000 · Health+5 morePREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $160,000 · Human ServicesPREVAIL INC OF HAMIL…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJ…Society of St Vincent de Paul Our Lady of Grace Conference Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesSociety of St Vincen…THERAPEUTIC & BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHERAPEUTIC & BEHAVI…A KID AGAIN INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INCAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $30,000 · Human ServicesAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF …ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $19,058 · Human Services+2 more: $28,846 · Human Services+2 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $120,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $92,251 · OtherCOTA - Children's O…NEW HOPE OF INDIANA INC: $60,000 · OtherNEW HOPE OF INDIANA…THE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE RECOVERY HIGH S…OUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH: $39,178 · OtherOUR LADY OF GRACE C…CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $33,350 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHU…ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · OtherST JOHN NEUMANN CAT…+2 more: $17,300 · OtherAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $250,000 · EducationAVE MARIA UNIV…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER…HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$688,023Health$567,057Human Services$455,904Other$432,079Education$325,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $558,162 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $105,674 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $103,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $102,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $102,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $95,383 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $92,251 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $67,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE OF INDIANA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Our Lady of Grace Conference Inc: $56,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC & BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RECOVERY HIGH SCHOOL AT FAIRBANKS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $27,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetANNA'S CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $26,861 over 1y, 13% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $19,058 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAM'S WISH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetINTECARE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNoble Inc: $13,846 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILK BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $9,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hamilton County Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lilly Endowment IncUnited Way of Central…The Brave Heart Found…Central Indiana Commu…Maurer Family Foundat…Hoover Family Foundat…Lumina Foundation for…Ayres Foundation IncThe Indianapolis Foun…Duke Energy Foundation
Hamilton County Community Foundation IncIN32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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