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INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC
INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,952 to it, the largest being BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
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.
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.
27% of INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $113k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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: $10M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Scottish Rite of Indianapolis Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION 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
INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 93% — 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
85% of INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $36k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k 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.
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationlocalportfolio matchIN · funds 256 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio matchIN · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 117 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Shelby County United Fund Incshared fundersIN · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- The Scottish Rite Foundation Southern Jurisdiction USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Scottish Rite Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crown Point Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ehret Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dean & Barbara White Family 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 SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION 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
49% 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 1 related entity
- Aasr of Freemasonry Nmj Valley of Indpls Lodge of Perfection · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION 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 INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC?
- INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,952 to it, the largest being BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $241,952 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC?
- BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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