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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,078,383 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($34,667,918). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$23M
Revenue FY2025
37
Funders on record
$37M
Grants received
$160M
Net assets
20/37 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$31M

Recipients

445

Contributions on record

$37M

Donors on record

37

Payments out are 0.83x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($5.9M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($85M)2019 Revenue 125 ($7.3M) Expenses 99 ($5.0M) Net assets 106 ($90M)2020 Revenue 262 ($15M) Expenses 112 ($5.7M) Net assets 121 ($102M)2021 Revenue 215 ($13M) Expenses 104 ($5.3M) Net assets 153 ($130M)2022 Revenue 149 ($8.7M) Expenses 143 ($7.2M) Net assets 131 ($111M)2023 Revenue 142 ($8.3M) Expenses 136 ($6.9M) Net assets 141 ($119M)2024 Revenue 320 ($19M) Expenses 192 ($9.7M) Net assets 167 ($141M)2025 Revenue 394 ($23M) Expenses 245 ($12M) Net assets 189 ($160M)
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Revenue (394)Expenses (245)Net assets (189)

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$790k
18
$2.3M
19
$9.7M
20
$7.3M
21
$1.5M
22
$1.4M
23
$9.1M
24
$11M
25
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $136k → $856k.

10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

98% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

WI
NY
IN
OH
CT
MO
KY
DE
NC
TX

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

17
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20
21
22
23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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 37 funders put you typical 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.

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 6%Fundraising 6%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

34%

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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Alliance Initiatives Fund Inc · exempt
  • City of Evansville Endowment Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,078,383 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($34,667,918). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $37,078,383 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,667,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 37funders 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