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Indy Championships Fund Inc

Promote the common business interests, growth, opportunity, and the general economic welfare for indianapolis-area businesses by attracting and hosting professional and amateur sports championship games, tournaments, and/or competitions, and other extraordinary events or conventions in and around the city.

$8.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,176,310
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,946,488
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Indy Championships Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving3$8.7M33%
FY20231$2.0M0%
FY20222$3.1M0%
FY20212$6.2M0%
FY20203$1.3M33%
FY20192$633k50%
FY20181$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$21MCommunity Improvement$600k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
2021 All-Star Inc$9,753,8045100%
Indy College Football Playoff Inc$9,726,6444100%
Indiana Sports Corporation$1,791,31044%
Capital Improvement Board$600,0001n/a

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About Indy Championships Fund Inc

How much does Indy Championships Fund Inc give?
Indy Championships Fund Inc reported 3 grants totaling $8,722,798 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Indy Championships Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (97%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Indy Championships Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: 2021 All-Star Inc ($9.8M), Indy College Football Playoff Inc ($9.7M), Indiana Sports Corporation ($1.8M).
Does Indy Championships Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Indy Championships Fund Inc based?
Indy Championships Fund 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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