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CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC

CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,139 to it, the largest being The Indianapolis Foundation Inc ($776,339). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$350k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$292k
Net assets
2/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2018 Revenue 157 ($113k) Expenses 192 ($81k) Net assets 161 ($84k)2019 Revenue 217 ($156k) Expenses 281 ($118k) Net assets 232 ($121k)2020 Revenue 107 ($77k) Expenses 108 ($46k) Net assets 293 ($153k)2021 Revenue 37 ($26k) Expenses 168 ($71k) Net assets 207 ($108k)2022 Revenue 383 ($275k) Expenses 327 ($138k) Net assets 470 ($245k)2023 Revenue 531 ($381k) Expenses 642 ($271k) Net assets 682 ($355k)2024 Revenue 488 ($350k) Expenses 979 ($413k) Net assets 562 ($292k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (488)Expenses (979)Net assets (562)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
17
$32k
18
$37k
19
$32k
20
$45k
21
$137k
22
$110k
23
$63k
24
8.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $68k → $389k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC.

68%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 74%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

74% of CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states.

NY
IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

21
22
23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $844k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC?
CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,139 to it, the largest being The Indianapolis Foundation Inc ($776,339). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,144,139 in grants to CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC?
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $776,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S POLICY & LAW INITIATIVE OF INDIANA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing