Indiana · Nonprofit
FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC
FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,268,466 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($6,311,898). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Indiana University Health Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Pacers Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $4k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Bureau Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 75% · 2019 91% · 2020 93% · 2021 68% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA 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. $592k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Indiana University Health Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pacers Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Griffith Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalIN · backs 180 organizations that share your funders · funds 257 organizations near you
- The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rock Island Refining Foundation Holly Robinson Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samerian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D H Jones Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert & Helen Haddad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Incshared funderslocalMO · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
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 FAMILIES FIRST 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES FIRST 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.
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 FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC?
- FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,268,466 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($6,311,898). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $7,268,466 in grants to FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES FIRST INDIANA INC?
- United Way of Central Indiana Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,311,898 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES FIRST 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 19funders 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