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Madison County Community Foundation Inc
Our goal at madison county community foundation is to invest in lasting positive change to elevate and strengthen madison county. We envision madison county as a community where every person has the opportunity to thrive.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $506,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Madison County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 50 | $1.0M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $911k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $692k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $988k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $719k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $708k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $758k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $672k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc | $558,069 | 8 | 15% |
| Paramount Heritage Foundation Inc | $501,122 | 9 | 23% |
| Anderson University Inc | $403,143 | 6 | 0% |
| Anderson Symphony Orchestra Assoc | $237,885 | 6 | 62% |
| Anderson Fine Arts Foundation Inc | $223,255 | 5 | 64% |
| Christian Center Inc | $209,727 | 9 | 4% |
| Young Mens Christian Assn of Madison County Inc | $202,387 | 8 | 5% |
| LAPEL ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO aka LAPEL PTO | $196,277 | 2 | n/a |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church of Anderson Indiana | $193,022 | 9 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana Inc | $118,404 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Madison County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 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: Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · St Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Madison County Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Madison County Community Foundation Inc give?
- Madison County Community Foundation Inc reported 52 itemized grants totaling $1,555,961, out of $1,954,836 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Madison County Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (16%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Madison County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc ($558k), Paramount Heritage Foundation Inc ($501k), Anderson University Inc ($403k).
- Does Madison County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Madison County Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc, Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County Inc, Heart of Indiana United Way Inc.
- Where is Madison County Community Foundation Inc based?
- Madison County Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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