Indiana · Private foundation
First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $36,616
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $268k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $208k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $259k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $279k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $199k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $243k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Inc | $602,882 | 6 | 7% |
| Leadership Southern Indiana Inc | $401,000 | 6 | 21% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc | $111,116 | 6 | 2% |
| Align Southern Indiana Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $268,116 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Community Improvement (30%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Inc ($603k), Leadership Southern Indiana Inc ($401k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc ($115k).
- Does First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harrison County Community Foundation Supporting Organization Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- First Merchants Southern Indiana Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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