Indiana · Private foundation
Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $113k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 14 | $113k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $108k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $131k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $150k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $124k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $128k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $113k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $149k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Rose Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 9 | 3% |
| RHI Foundation Inc | $85,500 | 9 | 4% |
| EdChoice Inc | $77,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Columbia (The) Club Fourndation Inc | $60,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Groundwork Indy Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Kids' Voice of Indiana Inc | $43,500 | 5 | 2% |
| A Kid Again Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Happy Hollow Camp Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Church of the Brethren | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Casa of the Tenth Judicial Circuit | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc · Hoover Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc give?
- Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $112,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Human Services (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Desert Rose Foundation Inc ($110k), RHI Foundation Inc ($86k), EdChoice Inc ($78k).
- Does Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc 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 Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc.
- Where is Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc based?
- Louis S Hensley Jr Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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