· Private foundation
Toomer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of TOOMER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| ENTRY POINT | $10,000 |
| COBURN PLACE | $8,000 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| BROOKES PLACE | $6,000 |
| CASS HOUSING | $5,100 |
| WATCH US FARM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEENWORKS | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MERICI | $4,000 |
| SERVANTS AT WORK | $4,000 |
| POST PARTUM SUPPORT INT | $4,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME OF IN | $4,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES OF IN | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MAMIDWEST ACADEMY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $42k · revenue +24%
- BPBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +31%
- CPCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SMST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +52%
- CRCLIMATE RIDE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -60%
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater 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…
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…
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,…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
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.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Alternatives incorporated strives to eradicate domestic and sexual violence through education, prevention, and intervention in central indiana. the organization exists to promote the right of all persons to live in a loving, caring, safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cass Housing 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 58 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 MIDWEST ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATCH US FARM INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds 91 PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS 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 · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Samerian Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc · Pacers Foundation 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 Toomer Family 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.
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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