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Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc

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$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$2,039,165
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,039,165
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library 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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving1$2.0M0%
FY20241$1.8M0%
FY20231$2.2M0%
FY20221$2.2M0%
FY20211$2.8M0%
FY20201$2.7M0%
FY20191$2.2M0%
FY20182$3.0M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$20MArts & Culture$61k

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
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library$21,944,5129n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$61,0512n/a
Indiana Library Federation Inc$6,00011%
Greater Indianapolis Literacy League Inc$5,6631n/a

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About Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc

How much does Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc give?
Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $2,039,165, out of $2,219,637 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library ($22M), Indiana University School of Medicine ($61k), Indiana Library Federation Inc ($6k).
Does Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc based?
Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc 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 4 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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