Indiana · Nonprofit
Elevate Ventures Inc
Elevate Ventures Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,811,125 to it, the largest being JUDD LEIGHTON FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Elevate Ventures Inc does
Mission
Elevate Ventures' mission is growing the state's economy, driving economic development, helping businesses launch, grow and locate in the State of Indiana. We increase the amount of capital available to Indiana startup and early stage innovation driven companies to spur economic development through growth, research and development. IEDC has contracted with Elevate Ventures since 2011 to carry out the required tasks associated with making direct investments in private Indiana companies and the associated programming and technical support required to build a sufficient pipeline of investable companies and to support Indiana's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2023 was a year of tremendous growth at Elevate Ventures. As the state's venture development partner with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), Elevate has deployed $15.7 million of an estimated $70 million in SSBCI funding. $5.3 million of the deployed capital has gone to business enterprises owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, often referred to as SEDI. In August 2023, Elevate hosted its final Nexus Pitch Competition. For over four years, the Nexus program served Indiana startups by hosting regional and statewide pitch competitions where winners took home direct investments ranging from $20,000-$100,000 awarding $6.46 million to 138 Indiana companies. To provide investments to as many eligible companies as possible, focusing attention on $20,000 investment opportunities, Elevate launched the Pre-Seed Fund to de-risk startups to the point that they are attractive to other investors and for follow-on seed-stage Elevate Ventures investment. The Pre-Seed Fund will also award $20,000-$100,000 in direct investments, but these awards can be sought and given any time of the year. This type of activity contributed to Pitchbook's Q4…
$8,246,569 spentof which $1,705,970 as grants$8,338,251 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,246,569.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $28M (+135%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 14% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of Elevate Ventures Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $385k → $240k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Elevate Ventures 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
Elevate Ventures Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Elevate Ventures Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 45% · 2019 59% · 2020 99% · 2021 73% · 2022 29% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of Elevate Ventures Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
66% of Elevate Ventures 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. $495k 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.
Against its field
Elevate Ventures Inc's revenue grew 68% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Elevate Ventures Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Elevate Ventures 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
- Elevate Advisors LLC · disregarded
- Leighton Elevate Angel Development Fund LLC · disregarded
- Rally Innovation LLC · disregarded
- Indiana 21st Century Fund LP · partnership
- Caresource Diversity & Social Impact Investment Fund LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Elevate Ventures 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 Elevate Ventures Inc?
- Elevate Ventures Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,811,125 to it, the largest being JUDD LEIGHTON FOUNDATION INC ($1,200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Elevate Ventures Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,811,125 in grants to Elevate Ventures Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Elevate Ventures Inc?
- JUDD LEIGHTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Elevate Ventures 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 15 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