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THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC

THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,839,030 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,885,803). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$8.8M
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What The Indiana Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc does

Mission

The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.

    $1,724,624 spent$378,139 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,724,624.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 146 ($3.0M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 233 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 76 ($1.5M) Expenses 96 ($988k) Net assets 271 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 76 ($1.5M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 302 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 81 ($1.6M) Expenses 116 ($1.2M) Net assets 331 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 94 ($1.9M) Expenses 171 ($1.8M) Net assets 487 ($7.8M)2024 Revenue 95 ($1.9M) Expenses 212 ($2.2M) Net assets 494 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 141 ($2.9M) Expenses 223 ($2.3M) Net assets 546 ($8.8M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (223)Net assets (546)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $4.1M (+120%).

$1.8M
$4.1M
$4.5M
$5.0M
$5.4M
$8.0M
$8.1M
$9.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$557k
’19
$506k
’20
$450k
’21
$151k
’23
−$234k
’24
$597k
’25
10
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

Christopher Daley-Graham

Executive director

Board chair

William Harrington

Chair of governance

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed713101011101110
Joined·+6+1+0+6·+2+0
No longer listed·0405·11
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $228k → $851k.

16 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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: $1.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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

THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC.

49%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 58% · 2019 75% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 77% · 2023 47% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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 $244k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Indiana funders.

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IN
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CA
KY
NC
TX

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC?
THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,839,030 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($1,885,803). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,839,030 in grants to THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC?
Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,885,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 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.

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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 29 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