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Flanner House of Indianapolis

Flanner House of Indianapolis (Indiana) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,665,728 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($7,627,153). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.6M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$24M
Net assets
$8.9M
22/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Flanner House of Indianapolis does

Mission

The flanner house mission is to support, advocate for, and empower individuals, children, and families by applying educational, social, and economic resources that move the community towards self-sufficiency.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Flanner House of Indianapolis, Inc. and Subsidiary (the Organization") is a nonprofit organization located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Organization's purpose is to support, advocate for and empower individuals, children, and families by applying educational, social and economic resources that move members of the community towards stabilization, and self-sufficiency. Social services provide a program focused on three main areas: family empowerment, life skills and job readiness, and employment. Community services provide economic development and affordable housing for the north west area of Indianapolis. This includes operating the Ujamaa community bookstore to provide literacy and programming for the community and entrepreneurship. Youth services provides early childhood education and before and after school care to instill a desire for lifelong learning. The food justice program seeks to rebirth and maintain their long tradition of providing equitable food access to marginalized communities in the largest food desert in Indianapolis. This includes operating Cleo's Bodega, a community grocery store and cafe and community-focused farm on the Organization's campus

    $6,417,019 spentof which $469,270 as grants$1,712,606 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,417,019.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 119 ($2.5M) Expenses 115 ($2.2M) Net assets 102 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 119 ($2.5M) Expenses 153 ($2.9M) Net assets 106 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 326 ($6.8M) Expenses 243 ($4.6M) Net assets 158 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 383 ($8.0M) Expenses 296 ($5.6M) Net assets 200 ($11M)2022 Revenue 422 ($8.8M) Expenses 472 ($8.9M) Net assets 180 ($9.7M)2023 Revenue 329 ($6.8M) Expenses 339 ($6.4M) Net assets 192 ($10M)2024 Revenue 319 ($6.6M) Expenses 438 ($8.2M) Net assets 165 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (319)Expenses (438)Net assets (165)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.6M to $9.1M (+38%).

$5.5M
$5.9M
$6.6M
$9.1M
$11M
$10M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 83% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
’17
$315k
’18
−$385k
’19
$2.2M
’20
$2.4M
’21
−$79k
’22
$477k
’23
−$1.6M
’24
0.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Deborah Lawrence

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed151010131391111
Joined·+4+0+4+0+0+4+0
No longer listed·9010420
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $812k → $3.3M.

8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Flanner House of Indianapolis’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

Flanner House of Indianapolis leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

67% 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 Flanner House of Indianapolis.

32%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 44% · 2021 49% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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

69% of Flanner House of Indianapolis's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

70% of Flanner House of Indianapolis's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Flanner House of Indianapolis receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $624k on record.

Federal$624k
grants $624kcontracts $0
22
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$299k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$250k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$75k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Flanner House of Indianapolis?
Flanner House of Indianapolis (Indiana) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,665,728 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($7,627,153). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Flanner House of Indianapolis have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $23,665,728 in grants to Flanner House of Indianapolis, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Flanner House of Indianapolis?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,627,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Flanner House of Indianapolis 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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