Indiana · Private foundation
Arvin Sango Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $184k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Arvin Sango Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 43 | $184k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $244k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $141k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $358k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $123k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $96k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $186k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $110k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Riverfront Development Madison Riverfront Development | $251,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Jefferson County United Way Inc | $119,330 | 9 | 7% |
| City of Madison | $96,750 | 6 | n/a |
| Madison Main Street Program | $94,150 | 6 | 16% |
| The King's Daughters' Hospital Foundation Incorporated | $49,756 | 4 | 8% |
| Madison Youth Unlimited Inc | $37,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County | $32,200 | 5 | 5% |
| Salvation Army | $25,650 | 9 | n/a |
| Heart House Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Visitmadison Inc | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($653k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arvin Sango Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc · Bethany Legacy Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · First Financial Foundation · The Yunker Foundation Inc · Repp Associates Foundation · Dearborn Community Foundation Inc · Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arvin Sango Foundation
- How much does Arvin Sango Foundation give?
- Arvin Sango Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $183,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arvin Sango Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (22%), Youth Development (18%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Arvin Sango Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Madison Riverfront Development Madison Riverfront Development ($251k), Jefferson County United Way Inc ($119k), City of Madison ($97k).
- Does Arvin Sango Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arvin Sango Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arvin Sango Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc, Bethany Legacy Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Arvin Sango Foundation based?
- Arvin Sango Foundation is based in IN.
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