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INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($240,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,002 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,002 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Indiana University Health Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2021 84% · 2022 35% · 2023 60% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $55k → $171k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION’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 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 79% · 2022 67% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana University Health Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jordan Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dorsey Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchIN · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Griffith Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Shaheen Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myrta J Pulliam Charitable Trust co Holly Pantzerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meridian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shiel Sexton Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION: 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 INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION?
- INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($240,900). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $692,000 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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