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KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY

KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,641 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($373,124). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$138k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$430k
Net assets
$9k
3/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Keeping Families Connected Inc Use What Youve Got Prison Ministry does

Mission

Keeping families connected is a faith based organization whose mission is to ensure families maintain contact by providing transportation for prison visitation nd promoting a holistic approach to family wellnes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We continue to provide support to ex-offenders by providing referrals to other agencies for housing, jobs, and supports. Also, provide transporation to families of inmates. Hosted the annual christmas holiday assistance program for children of incarcerated parents by providing a safe space for a meal, program and toy giveaway.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2022 Revenue 158 ($121k) Expenses 211 ($103k) Net assets 443 ($23k)2023 Revenue 283 ($217k) Expenses 407 ($198k) Net assets 2729 ($142k)2024 Revenue 322 ($247k) Expenses 621 ($302k) Net assets 1666 ($87k)2025 Revenue 180 ($138k) Expenses 168 ($82k) Net assets 165 ($9k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (180)Expenses (168)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $60k to $181k (+202%).

$42k
$60k
$181k
$113k
$63k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’21
$18k
’22
$19k
’23
−$55k
’24
$56k
’25
1.0
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.

Chief executive

Cecelia Whitefield

President & CEO

Board chair

Richard Samuels

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20232024
Listed1912
Joined·+5
No longer listed·12
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $205k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY’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

KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY.

87%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Indiana funders.

WI
IN

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

’20
’21
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY?
KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,641 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($373,124). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $429,641 in grants to KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY?
THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $373,124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED INC USE WHAT YOUVE GOT PRISON MINISTRY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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