Spectrum Communities of Indiana

What Spectrum Communities of Indiana does

Spectrum Communities of Indiana, branded as Communities In Schools of Indiana, is a non-profit organization founded in 2013 and headquartered in Indianapolis, United States. Per its own positioning, it provides integrated student support services aimed at helping at-risk students stay in school and achieve success. The delivery model is the standard Communities In Schools "Integrated Student Supports" framework, in which site-based coordinators are placed inside schools to coordinate interventions such as mentoring, basic-needs assistance, academic support, and family engagement on behalf of identified at-risk students.

The organization's footprint in the available data is very small: it employs 1-10 people, has no documented products, technology platform, or proprietary tools, and its website (cisindiana.org) returned only a loader/verification page at the time of capture, providing no additional detail on programs, partner schools, or service metrics. There is no evidence of a technology stack, digital platform, or data infrastructure. The company type is non-profit and it is privately held.

Because the source material is limited to a brief self-description and minimal firmographic metadata, the business model specifics — funding sources (grants, donations, state/federal contracts), exact service contracts, geographic reach beyond Indiana, or pricing-equivalent unit economics — cannot be triangulated from the input. What is documented is a labor-intensive, school-embedded service delivery model typical of small state-level affiliates in the Communities In Schools network.

Name

Spectrum Communities of Indiana

Website

https://cisindiana.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Spectrum Communities of Indiana, operating as Communities In Schools of Indiana, is a small Indianapolis-based non-profit founded in 2013 that delivers integrated student support services to at-risk students in Indiana schools to help them stay in school and succeed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Student Support Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (624110), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Wellness & Prevention Programs (Substance Use, Sexual Health, Bullying) (EDAJAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

K–12 Support & School Improvement Nonprofits (BPAGADAB), School Climate, Culture & Belonging Initiatives (DEI-Aligned) (EDAKAMAM)

Keywords

• Student support services
• Integrated student supports
• At-risk youth services
• Dropout prevention
• School-based case management

Headquarters

HQ city

Indianapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Spectrum Communities of Indiana (operating under the Communities In Schools of Indiana brand) is an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that delivers integrated student support services inside schools. Its work focuses on identifying at-risk students and surrounding them with coordinated supports (academic, social-emotional, basic-needs, and family-engagement resources) intended to keep them enrolled, engaged, and on a path to graduation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Integrated Student Support Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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No

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Direct peers

• KIPP Indiana Public Schools: Indianapolis charter network serving a high-needs student population with embedded wraparound services, competing for some of the same at-risk students and overlapping on the school-based mental health and SEL category.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis: Indianapolis-based nonprofit providing youth development programs and out-of-school support to at-risk youth, directly competing for the same donor, volunteer, and school-partnership pool as Spectrum Communities of Indiana.
• City Year Indianapolis: National Service program placing near-peer mentors in Indianapolis-area schools to support at-risk students on attendance and engagement, directly competing for school district partnerships and AmeriCorps-style funding.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana: Central Indiana nonprofit offering one-to-one mentoring and youth support services to school-aged children, overlapping directly with CIS's mentoring and case-management components for at-risk students.

Broad incumbents

• United Way of Central Indiana: Large regional funder and convener of health and education programs serving the same Indianapolis geography and frequently co-funding or partnering with school-based student support initiatives.
• Communities In Schools (National Office): National umbrella organization of the CIS network, providing the brand, model, and training that Spectrum Communities of Indiana operates under. Same integrated student supports framework, but operates at the national coordination level rather than at the state- affiliate level.

Regional players

• Indiana Youth Institute: Statewide intermediary supporting youth-serving nonprofits in Indiana through training, data, and capacity-building — overlapping on the same organizational and donor ecosystem.
• Starfish Initiative: Indianapolis-based college-prep mentoring nonprofit serving low-income high school students, sharing the same mentor-driven, school-based student support model aimed at graduation and postsecondary success.

Emerging players

• Attendance Works: National nonprofit focused on chronic absenteeism — a central use case for CIS integrated student supports — and providing resources and advocacy that shape the funding landscape Spectrum Communities of Indiana depends on.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/communities-in-schools-of-indiana

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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