Indiana · Private foundation
Blue Sky Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $293k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Blue Sky Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $3.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $4.5M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $11M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $7.8M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $5.6M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $6.9M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $4.6M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Heritage Conservancy Inc | $11,939,105 | 8 | 91% |
| Access Ventures Inc | $6,100,000 | 3 | 43% |
| New Life International Inc | $4,955,000 | 3 | 83% |
| Northside Christian Church | $4,490,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Jefferson Street Baptist Center Inc | $1,975,000 | 3 | 62% |
| Nadus Films Inc | $875,500 | 4 | 92% |
| Nf2 Biosolutions | $600,000 | 2 | 45% |
| St John Center Inc | $525,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Orphan Care Alliance Inc | $420,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Maker Mobile Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 49% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Sky Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · Access Ventures Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Blue Sky Foundation Inc
- How much does Blue Sky Foundation Inc give?
- Blue Sky Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $3,279,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Blue Sky Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Environment (25%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are Blue Sky Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: River Heritage Conservancy Inc ($12M), Access Ventures Inc ($6.1M), New Life International Inc ($5.0M).
- Does Blue Sky Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Sky 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 Blue Sky Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc.
- Where is Blue Sky Foundation Inc based?
- Blue Sky Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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