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Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$373kPublic Safety & Disaster$265kAnimals$259kEducation$61kHealth$37kRecreation & Sports$26kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$965k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA LANDMARKS$100,000
INDY JAZZ FOUNDATION$21,000
INDYHUMANE$8,700
INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$6,000
CRUISE INDY$5,000
CARMEL CIVILITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT$5,000
IMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$5,000
HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL$5,000
STUTZ ARTIST ASSOCIATION$5,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,600
NEW SONG MISSION$2,500
INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB$2,500
FRIENDS OF INDY ANIMALS$2,500
PARK TUDOR SCHOOL$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A LITTLE HELP: $3k → 8%FOSTER SOURCE: $3k → 10%A LITTLE HELP: $1k → 8%FOSTER SOURCE: $1k → 10%AMIGAS IN ACTION: $1k → 12%A LITTLE HELP: $500 → 12%INDIANA SPIRIT GROUP: $1k → 5%CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $1k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%DAMAR FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $1k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $120 → 16%CARE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CO
VA
NC
DC
OK
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980k · 43 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
76

Total granted

$980k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+8%

Still filing today

53%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HL
    Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $119k · revenue +195%
  • IZ
    Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%
  • KV
    KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RF
    RURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • CI
    Carmel International Arts Festival Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • KI
    KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
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
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
2
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

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…

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3
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
4
Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
6
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

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

Health
7
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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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
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
10
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
11
Independent Insurance Agents of 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.

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12
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 129 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
46/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPD MOUNTED PATROL ASSOCIATION CO CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATION: $457,500 · OtherIMPD MOUNTED PATROL ASSOCIATION CO CENTRAL INDIANA POLICE FOUNDATIONINDY JAZZ FOUNDATION: $104,200 · OtherINDY JAZZ FOUNDATION+76 more: $234,866 · Other+76 moreHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $118,500 · Arts & CultureHistoric Landmarks…HEARTLAND FILM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND FILM INCKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $11,200 · Arts & CultureKURT VONNEGUT MEMO…Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc: $7,400 · Arts & CultureACTORS THEATRE OF INDIANA INC: $6,900 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $22,020 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $23,700 · EducationPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $5,600 · EducationThe Oaks Academy Inc: $2,520 · EducationNEW SONG MISSION INC: $2,500 · Education+3 more: $3,600 · EducationIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $12,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $8,700 · AnimalsOWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE MAXFUND INC: $2,500 · AnimalsTRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,500 · AnimalsSHEPHERD HELP AND RESCUE EFFORT INC: $1,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $7,200 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,900 · HealthRandom Acts of Flowers: $6,573 · HealthMotorcycle Relief Project: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,200 · HealthBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthA LITTLE HELP: $4,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER SOURCE: $3,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $3,400 · Human ServicesCARE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC DBA CARE FOR KIDS: $2,400 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $1,320 · Human ServicesDamar Foundation Inc: $1,200 · Human ServicesINDIANA SPIRIT GROUP: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMIGAS IN ACTION: $1,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWFYI Foundation Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyOWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$796,566Arts & Culture$191,020Education$46,420Animals$43,200Health$27,873Human Services$18,820Philanthropy$16,000

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 budgetHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $118,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $23,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $11,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc: $7,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF INDIANA INC: $6,900 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $6,573 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL FUTURES INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCarmel Civility Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCarmel International Arts Festival Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWFYI Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA LITTLE HELP: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER SOURCE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget500 Festival Foundation Inc: $2,573 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Oaks Academy Inc: $2,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotorcycle Relief Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW SONG MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC DBA CARE FOR KIDS: $2,400 over 1y, 14% of budgetColumbia (The) Club Fourndation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHVAF OF INDIANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiscovering Broadway Inc: $1,665 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD HELP AND RESCUE EFFORT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $1,320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpeedway Chamber of Commerce: $1,300 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…Maurer Family Foundat…The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Lumina Foundation for…Richard M Fairbanks F…Hamilton County Commu…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Dorsey Foundation Inc
Lilly Endowment IncIN53.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Van Riper-Woodard Family 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 129 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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