Indiana · Private foundation
Dorsey 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.
- $913k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Dorsey Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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 | 55 | $903k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $841k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $841k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $794k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $680k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $615k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $674k | 38% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village of Merici Inc | $452,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc | $448,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc | $370,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc | $370,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $304,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Inc | $273,400 | 8 | 5% |
| New Story Inc | $260,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Indy Championships Legacy Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 34% |
| Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc | $178,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dorsey Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 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 · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dorsey Foundation Inc
- How much does Dorsey Foundation Inc give?
- Dorsey Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $913,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dorsey Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are Dorsey Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Village of Merici Inc ($453k), Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ($448k), Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc ($370k).
- Does Dorsey Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorsey 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 Dorsey Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dorsey Foundation Inc based?
- Dorsey Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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