· Private foundation
Zink 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS INC | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GOODWILL OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA INC | $5,000 |
| RENGIFO PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $3,000 |
| CICOA FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| AVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY (DBA UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS) | $2,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF IMDIANA INC | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY INDIANA DIVISION | $2,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +53%
- GLGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +35%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +38%
- ALA LONGER TABLE INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -12%
- GFGOODWILL FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL INDIANAone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rengifo Parkinson's Foundation 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 60 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 35 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 The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CICOA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVONDALE MEADOWS ACADEMY INC D/B/A UNITED SCHOOLS OF INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS AWARENESS ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds Heritage Place of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ALLIANCE OF YMCAS ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds RENGIFO PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RILEY CHEER GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
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 · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · The R B Annis Educational Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks 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 Zink 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.
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.