Indiana · Private foundation
Lacy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $474k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $105,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Lacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $473k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $641k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $830k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $747k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $545k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership Indianapolis Inc | $439,350 | 5 | 21% |
| Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $152,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Inc | $138,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Coburn Place Safehaven II Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nine 13 Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Cicp Foundation Inc | $94,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cabaret Theatre Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $86,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heartland Film Inc | $83,500 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc
How this is measured
About Lacy Foundation
- How much does Lacy Foundation give?
- Lacy Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $473,715 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Lacy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Community Improvement (18%), Education (15%).
- Who are Lacy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Leadership Indianapolis Inc ($439k), Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ($170k), Ball State University Foundation Inc ($153k).
- Does Lacy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lacy 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 Lacy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Lacy Foundation based?
- Lacy Foundation is based in IN.
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