· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $506k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOO | $106,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $75,000 |
| ESKENAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MERICI | $50,000 |
| NEW STORY INC | $50,000 |
| BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTAL SITE | $45,000 |
| BINFORD REDEVELOPMENT & GROWTH (BRAG) | $30,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS GOLF FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NEWFIELDS | $25,000 |
| KELLOGG ANNUAL FUND | $25,000 |
| PATACHOU FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CHRISTEL HOUSE | $25,000 |
| KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL | $25,000 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $588k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +85%
- KIKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +47%
- EHEskenazi Health Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- CICENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue -12%
- FRFOOD RESCUE INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -92%
- RRRajeev Ram Foundationone grant, 2022 · $35k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
To promote industrial and business development, diversification of indiana's economy, and overall economic growth of indiana; to promote the retention, expansion, growth, and modernization of indiana's businesses; to promote the creation…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indianapolis Downtown Marketing, Inc. (IDMI) exists to improve downtown Indianapolis. IDMI focuses on marketing downtown businesses, destinations, organizations, activities and events.
The parks alliance is a leader in developing and sustaining indianapolis parks and greenways by connecting resources to needs to better establish and maintain a safe and thriving community.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
How this is measured
105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 164 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VILLAGE OF MERICI INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL SITE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia (The) Club Fourndation Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXTECHORG INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VENTURE CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A LONGER TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds Center for Interfaith Cooperation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dorsey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorsey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- With Love Oregon Inc: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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