Indiana · Private foundation
Boren Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $327,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Boren Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $372k 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 | 69 | $1.6M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.1M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $1.1M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.0M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $797k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastbrook Community Schools | $1,144,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana Inc | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nearspace Education Inc | $195,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Grant County Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Blood -N- Fire Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| East Central Indiana Robotics Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 58% |
| Grant County Rescue Mission Inc | $111,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $107,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Isaiah 117 House | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jefferson Township Fire Department Inc | $82,901 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Boren Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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 Grant County Indiana Inc · Atlas Foundry Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Fairmount Round Robins Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · United Way of Grant County Inc · Indiana Wesleyan University · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn
How this is measured
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About Boren Foundation Inc
- How much does Boren Foundation Inc give?
- Boren Foundation Inc reported 70 grants totaling $1,672,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Boren Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (8%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Boren Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastbrook Community Schools ($1.1M), Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana Inc ($280k), Nearspace Education Inc ($195k).
- Does Boren Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Boren Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boren Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc, Atlas Foundry Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Boren Foundation Inc based?
- Boren Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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