Indiana · Private foundation
Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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 | 34 | $289k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $423k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $868k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $751k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $718k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $708k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Honeywell Foundation Inc | $1,600,000 | 4 | 4% |
| White's Residential & Family Services Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wabash County Young Mens Christian Association Inc | $202,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Wabash County Historical Museum Inc | $187,050 | 4 | 20% |
| City of Wabash | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wabash County Fair Association | $103,000 | 2 | 66% |
| Daniels Place Inc | $102,800 | 2 | 27% |
| Wabash County United Fund Inc | $84,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Wabash Valley Dance Theater Inc | $82,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Learn More Center Inc | $57,500 | 3 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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 Wabash County Inc · Terry D and Carol a Agness Family Foundation · Wabash County United Fund Inc · Beacon Credit Union Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc
How this is measured
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About Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc
- How much does Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc give?
- Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $289,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Philanthropy (22%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Honeywell Foundation Inc ($1.6M), White's Residential & Family Services Inc ($300k), Wabash County Young Mens Christian Association Inc ($203k).
- Does Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc, Terry D and Carol a Agness Family Foundation, Wabash County United Fund Inc.
- Where is Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc based?
- Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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