Indiana · Private foundation
McAdams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $621k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations McAdams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 8 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $28k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $20k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $31k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $21k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $24k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifepoint Church | $51,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Conner Prairie Museum Inc | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Arsenal Technical High School Alumni Association Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Franciscan Health Foundation Inc | $9,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| TMP Enterprises Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ainsley's Angels of America | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Man in the Mirror Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Perry Township Education Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hunger Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifepoint Church | $51,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Conner Prairie Museum Inc | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Arsenal Technical High School Alumni Association Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Franciscan Health Foundation Inc | $9,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| TMP Enterprises Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ainsley's Angels of America | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Man in the Mirror Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Perry Township Education Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hunger Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc | $1,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Prevail Inc of Hamilton County | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hazelwood Christian Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Indianapolis | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Faith United Church of Christ | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Thomas Espiscopal Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| St Richard's Episcopal School | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Clearwater Elementary PTO Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McAdams Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Biddle Memorial Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About McAdams Foundation
- How much does McAdams Foundation give?
- McAdams Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $19,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McAdams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (27%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are McAdams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifepoint Church ($51k), Conner Prairie Museum Inc ($33k), Arsenal Technical High School Alumni Association Inc ($24k).
- Does McAdams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McAdams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McAdams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is McAdams Foundation based?
- McAdams Foundation is based in IN.
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