Indiana · Nonprofit
THE DAMIEN CENTER INC
THE DAMIEN CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,684,235 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,005,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $32M
What The Damien Center Inc does
Mission
The damien center's mission is to be a trusted partner in providing comprehensive health care, education, and services for all people living with or at risk for hiv and any person seeking a safe and welcoming home for care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The damien center's housing and economic assistance services department works to ensure that those in need have safe and affordable housing of choice. Frequently, persons living with hiv/aids may have problems meeting rent, utilities, or other housing expenses. The housing assistance program has grant dollars to provide on-going and short term rental assistance to qualifying applicants. We also refer clients wishing to purchase a home to various home-buying programs. The damien center's housing programs include hud hopwa awarded by the city of indianapolis which includes two types of rental and emergency assistance.
$24,997,440 spent$24,842,881 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe center offers free and confidential hiv testing monday through saturday. The center provides trained, supportive prevention case managers to help counsel groups and individuals who may by considered high risk of hiv or other stds.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,997,440.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $29M to $47M (+61%).
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: 2017 69% · 2018 84% · 2019 60% · 2020 45% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% · 2024 32% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of THE DAMIEN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Alan Witchey
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $483k → $2.5M.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE DAMIEN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
THE DAMIEN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 THE DAMIEN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 54% · 2019 46% · 2020 52% · 2021 44% · 2022 81% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of THE DAMIEN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 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
98% of THE DAMIEN CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $748k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
THE DAMIEN CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE DAMIEN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.1M
- Department of Justice$600k
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.
Organizations like THE DAMIEN CENTER INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 3 related entities
- Damien Pharmacy LLC · disregarded
- Damien Cares · exempt
- Damien Center Real Estate Holding Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DAMIEN CENTER INC?
- THE DAMIEN CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,684,235 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,005,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DAMIEN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $17,684,235 in grants to THE DAMIEN CENTER INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DAMIEN CENTER INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,005,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DAMIEN CENTER 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing