Indiana · Private foundation
Avis 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $425,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Avis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k 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 | 20 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $2.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.3M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $997k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $799k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $685k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc | $1,694,560 | 7 | 4% |
| Ouachita Baptist University | $1,050,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Huntington University | $1,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nearspace Education Inc | $731,650 | 3 | 49% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc | $600,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Anderson University Inc | $590,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Conner Prairie Museum Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $345,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | $180,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harrison Center for the Arts Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Avis Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Boren Foundation Inc · Indiana Humanities Council Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Myrta J Pulliam Charitable Trust co Holly Pantzer
How this is measured
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About Avis Foundation Inc
- How much does Avis Foundation Inc give?
- Avis Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $3,002,529 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Avis Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (24%), Health (8%).
- Who are Avis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc ($1.7M), Ouachita Baptist University ($1.1M), Huntington University ($1.0M).
- Does Avis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Avis 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 Avis Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Avis Foundation Inc based?
- Avis Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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