· Private foundation
Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA LANDMARKS | $100,000 |
| INDY JAZZ FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| INDYHUMANE | $8,700 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT | $5,000 |
| STUTZ ARTIST ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CRUISE INDY | $5,000 |
| HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| CARMEL CIVILITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| IMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB | $2,500 |
| NEW SONG MISSION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF INDY ANIMALS | $2,500 |
| INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% 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 +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 87% 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
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%
- KVKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +47%
- TITHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- KIKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
- CICarmel International Arts Festival Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
- RFRURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +9%
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 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.
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…
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,…
The parks alliance is a leader in developing and sustaining indianapolis parks and greenways by connecting resources to needs to better establish and maintain a safe and thriving community.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 129 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 HEARTLAND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds STUTZ ARTISTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTORS THEATRE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Carmel International Arts Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds RURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Carmel Civility Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds WFYI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
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 · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Dorsey 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 Van Riper-Woodard Family 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue 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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