Missouri · Nonprofit
INDIANAPOLIS OASIS
INDIANAPOLIS OASIS (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,044 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $0
What Indianapolis Oasis does
Mission
To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. Our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful lives.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Indianapolis Oasis ceased operations and dissolved effective as of december 31, 2022.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Health - Indianapolis Oasis focuses on increasing awareness, knowledge and skills of older adults to address their individual health needs. The classes emphasize physical activities and exercise, nutrition and cooking. Classes such as the highly recognized matter of balance evidence-based 8-session health program taught by trained older adult volunteers also address health issues facing older adults. In 2019, Indianapolis Oasis began offering the aging mastery program (amp), a program designed to inform, encourage, and support older adults as they take steps to improve their lives and engage with their communities.(continued in schedule o)(continued from form 990, part iii) amp is all about feeling better today and staying healthy for the future by utilizing volunteers to work with older adults in community settings to develop sustainable behaviors across many dimensions that lead to improved health, stronger economic security, enhanced well-being and increased social participation. Peer-led discussions give trained volunteers the opportunity to help older adults develop new norms and pathways in retirement. The 10 core classes combine a peer-supported classroom-like structure…
$14,505 spentof which $4,060 as grants$3,458 earned by the program86% of program spendingVolunteer service - Indianapolis Oasis offers a variety of ways for older adults to enrich their lives through volunteer service. The oasis intergenerational tutoring program trains volunteer tutors and matches them with at-risk primary grade children to build reading and language skills. The program also helps build the students' confidence and positive attitudes towards learning. The oasis intergenerational tutoring program is celebrating 30 years of service to area elementary schools. Before the covid-19 pandemic, 250 trained older adults worked one-on-one with over 280 children in grades k-3 in 50 elementary schools across the greater indianapolis community. (continued in schedule o)(continued from form 990, part iii) peer-led discussions give trained volunteers the opportunity to help older adults combat loneliness and isolation by offering monthly discussion groups with curriculum on topics of interest to adults as they age. Opportunities are also provided to volunteers to assist in running the center, serving as instructors, registering participants for classes, performing database entry and answering phones. Volunteers can also participate in committees relating to class…
$2,005 spent12% of program spendingTechnology literacy - Indianapolis Oasis provides a variety of computer classes for its participants to assist older adults improve their technology literacy. This evidence-based connections curriculum, developed and updated on an on-going basis by the oasis institute, includes topics such as cyber-crimefighters which provides information on scams, phishing, and password protection.
$343 spent2% of program spendingEducation - Indianapolis Oasis designs and offers educational programs in the areas of arts and humanities for a diverse audience of lifelong learners. Topics range from current events, history, to various topics on the arts, to creative writing. Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, classes were offered virtually.
$14,898 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,853.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $276k to $173k (−37%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Heather Hershberger
Consulting executive director
Board chair
Nancy Busk
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $32k → $12k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 INDIANAPOLIS OASIS’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
INDIANAPOLIS OASIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 INDIANAPOLIS OASIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 56% · 2019 50% · 2020 44% — 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
0% of INDIANAPOLIS OASIS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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 FY2020, 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
INDIANAPOLIS OASIS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Organizations like INDIANAPOLIS OASIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Oasis Institute · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS OASIS?
- INDIANAPOLIS OASIS (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,044 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS OASIS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $234,044 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS OASIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS OASIS?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS OASIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 8 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