Indiana · Nonprofit
WFYI Foundation Inc
WFYI Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,987 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,620). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WFYI Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Indiana University Health Inclocalportfolio match
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio 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.
60% of WFYI Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $41k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WFYI 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
WFYI Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 WFYI Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 51% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of WFYI Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
66% of WFYI 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 $151k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana University Health Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio matchIN · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Griffith Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Indianapolis Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
- Myrta J Pulliam Charitable Trust co Holly Pantzerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McKinney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Swisher Foundation Inc CO Jeffrey Bodkinportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Orl Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jean and Bernas Downing Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalIN · backs 110 organizations that share your funders · funds 256 organizations near you
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you
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 WFYI 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WFYI 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 WFYI Foundation Inc?
- WFYI Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,987 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,620). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WFYI Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $438,987 in grants to WFYI Foundation Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WFYI Foundation Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $119,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WFYI 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20funders 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