Indiana · Nonprofit
The William E English Foundation
The William E English Foundation (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being The Indianapolis Foundation Inc ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The William E English Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter 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.
- Indiana University Health Inclocalportfolio match
- Lacy Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Griffith 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of The William E English Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 William E English Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of The William E English Foundation's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Indiana University Health Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lacy Foundationlocalportfolio matchIN · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Griffith Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Second Helpings InclocalIN · funds 135 organizations near you
- Dorsey Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Opportunity Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Orl Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beckmoore Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Colleges of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harlan Family Foundationportfolio 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 The William E English 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · exempt
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · exempt
- McCaw Family Foundation Inc · exempt
- Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc · exempt
- Nextechorg Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The William E English 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 The William E English Foundation?
- The William E English Foundation (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being The Indianapolis Foundation Inc ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The William E English Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,000 in grants to The William E English Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The William E English Foundation?
- The Indianapolis Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The William E English 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing