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Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics

The mission of first indiana robotics is to inspire young people in indiana to be science and technology leaders and innovators by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technologies skills that inspire innovation and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence,…

$200k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$84k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,074
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$79k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics 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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$84k57%
FY20241$90k0%
FY20231$125k0%
FY20221$103k0%
FY20211$92k0%
FY20205$38k20%
FY20199$87k33%
FY20188$61k63%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$546kEducation$139kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kYouth Development$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)$476,79980%
Perry Township Schools$57,7453n/a
Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp$29,5003n/a
Msd of Lawrence Township$20,1743n/a
Warrick County School Corporation$19,5503n/a
Washington Community Schools$19,0002n/a
Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools$17,5983n/a
Msd of Pike Township$13,8202n/a
Carmel Clay School Corporation$13,3002n/a
461 Boosters First$9,49516%
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)$476,79980%
Perry Township Schools$57,7453n/a
Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp$29,5003n/a
Msd of Lawrence Township$20,1743n/a
Warrick County School Corporation$19,5503n/a
Washington Community Schools$19,0002n/a
Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools$17,5983n/a
Msd of Pike Township$13,8202n/a
Carmel Clay School Corporation$13,3002n/a
461 Boosters First$9,49516%
Red Alert Robotics Parent Organization$7,01917%
Brownsburg Community Schools$7,0001n/a
Castle Robotics Club$6,5001n/a
Pike County School Corporation$6,5001n/a
Metropolitan School District of Mt Vernon$6,5001n/a
Msd of Warren Township$6,3001n/a
Clark-Pleasant Preschool$6,0001n/a
Purdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc$6,00010%

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.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)NH35.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Teachers Treasures Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · University of Indianapolis · Forum Credit Union Foundation Inc · Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics

How much does Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics give?
Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics reported 7 itemized grants totaling $83,569, out of $200,260 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Education (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Who are Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($477k), Perry Township Schools ($58k), Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp ($30k).
Does Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Project Lead the Way Inc, Project Lead the Way Inc.
Where is Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics based?
Indianafirst Inc First Indiana Robotics is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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