Indiana · Nonprofit
Damar Services Inc
Damar Services Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,878,144 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($16,156,822). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Damar Services Inc does
Mission
Damar provides residential, educational, therapeutic, and community services for children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities that promote the fullest possible individual potential while preparing them to live as independently as possible in their chosen community. In addition to on-campus residential care, the organization provides a full continuum of support to individuals with developmental disabilities in their own communities that include behavioral health services, group home services, and supportive living services. The organization also provides affordable, high quality, compassionate healthcare for individuals and families, regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Services - Damar's campus provides 24 hour supervised care that ranges from staff-secure to more independent alternatives with a total of 190 beds. Transitional living homes and group homes located in the community mainly near campus provides clients with the least restrictive environment in the residential services program with approximately 37 beds.
$61,506,884 spent$72,989,480 earned by the program62% of program spendingCommunity living and support - Damar's community-based services provide assistance and intervention for all ages. Individuals receiving services, either live in their own homes or with their families and need support. The outpatient clinic continues Damar's mission into the community by providing behavior management services and mental health counseling. The goal of the outpatient clinic is to help individuals fully realize their potential. Damar Services provides ABA programming to clients at three locations in the city. Approximately 1100 were served in this program.
$34,525,545 spent$31,496,384 earned by the program35% of program spendingEducational Services - Damar Academy offers comprehensive special education school programs for students ages 6-22 facing delays related to autism, mental retardation, and other developmental and intellectual disabilities. The school is fully accredited by the Indiana Department of Education as a freeway school and can contract with local school corporations to provide educational programming to children who qualify. Damar Academy serves approximately 110 students.
$2,564,988 spent$2,674,275 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $98,597,417.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $32M to $55M (+72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Damar Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr James Dalton
President and CEO
Board chair
Ralph Balber
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $10M → $851k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Damar Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Damar Services Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Damar Services 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
Damar Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 77% · 2021 61% · 2022 29% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
8% of Damar Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Damar Services Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $344k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
Damar Services Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Damar Services Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Damar Specialized Services LLC · disregarded
- Damar Transportation LLC · disregarded
- Damar Support Services LLC · disregarded
- Damar Pharmacy · disregarded
- Advocacy and Training Alliance LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Damar Services Inc?
- Damar Services Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,878,144 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($16,156,822). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Damar Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $16,878,144 in grants to Damar Services Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Damar Services Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,156,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Damar Services 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing