Indiana · Private foundation
Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $241,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $86M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $3.7M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $3.6M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $3.2M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $4.0M | 51% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $3.2M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwork Indy Inc | $1,332,300 | 6 | 36% |
| Elevate Indianapolis Inc | $1,271,000 | 6 | 34% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $1,244,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Southeast Community Services Inc | $1,182,220 | 6 | 7% |
| Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc | $898,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Center for Whitley County Youth Inc | $656,000 | 6 | 32% |
| Reach for Youth Inc | $650,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Dream Alive Inc | $534,500 | 5 | 22% |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis | $487,503 | 4 | 7% |
| Brightlane Learning Corp | $471,000 | 4 | 24% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
About Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc give?
- Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc reported 47 grants totaling $3,650,328 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Human Services (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Groundwork Indy Inc ($1.3M), Elevate Indianapolis Inc ($1.3M), Playworks Education Energized ($1.2M).
- Does Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc based?
- Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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