Indiana · Private foundation
David P Sheetz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $700k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations David P Sheetz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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 | 30 | $700k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $840k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $626k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $925k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $583k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $750k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope College | $470,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc | $245,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | $243,450 | 2 | 2% |
| Freewheelin Community Bikes | $132,500 | 6 | 6% |
| People for Urban Progress Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Peace Learning Center Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Morning Light Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David P Sheetz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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 Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About David P Sheetz Foundation
- How much does David P Sheetz Foundation give?
- David P Sheetz Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $700,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does David P Sheetz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), International (17%), Education (12%).
- Who are David P Sheetz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($750k), Hope College ($470k), Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc ($245k).
- Does David P Sheetz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David P Sheetz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as David P Sheetz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is David P Sheetz Foundation based?
- David P Sheetz Foundation is based in IN.
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