· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEVATE INDIANAPOLIS INC | $241,000 |
| PLAYWORKS INDIANA | $225,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $189,628 |
| ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORP DBA VOICES CORP | $174,500 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY SERVICES | $170,750 |
| MISSION 25 | $170,000 |
| REACH FOR YOUTH INC | $161,000 |
| GROUNDWORK INDY INC | $160,300 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC | $160,000 |
| DREAM ALIVE INC | $141,000 |
| STARFISH INITIATIVE | $133,000 |
| INDIANA YOUTH GROUP INC | $120,750 |
| CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC | $111,000 |
| TROY SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC | $97,650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EIElevate Indianapolis Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +202% · 34% of their budget
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $898k · revenue +169%
- CFCENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $656k · revenue +189% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- ADARTHUR DEAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $552k
- CPConner Prairie Museum Incone grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +17%
- ESECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $160k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to improve the lives of all indiana children by strengthening and connecting the people, organizations, and communities focused on kids and youth.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…
To inspire women and girls of all ages to pursue stem related employment in indiana by introducing them to experiences and career opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as well as provide the…
The peers project creates an influence network that empowers teens to choose healthy behaviors and form positive relationships.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
The indiana plan recruits women and minorities to enter construction apprenticeship programs to encourage gainful employment.
Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
We fight for education justice and opportunities for indianapolis students by training and electing bold leaders, holding them accountable for their policy decisions, and organizing our network to influence and improve our public schools.
The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…
How this is measured
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds Elevate Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds Asante Art Institute of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds IYG INC ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS INDIANA ↗
- Who funds YOU YES YOU PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
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- Who funds ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Dean Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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