Indiana · Private foundation
Kittle Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,252
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $361k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Kittle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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 | 7 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $17k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $22k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $29k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $21k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $11k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis | $65,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Oaks Academy Inc | $4,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Fair Haven Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.
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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kittle Foundation
- How much does Kittle Foundation give?
- Kittle Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $17,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kittle Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Kittle Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ($66k), The Oaks Academy Inc ($5k), Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ($5k).
- Does Kittle Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kittle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kittle Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Kittle Foundation based?
- Kittle Foundation is based in IN.
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