· Private foundation
McAdams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARSENAL TECHNICAL HIGH SC | $6,000 |
| HUNGER INC | $3,000 |
| LIFE POINT CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CONNER PRAIRIE | $3,000 |
| INDIANA STATE PARKS NATURAL | $2,000 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| INDIANA CENTRAL | $500 |
| AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of McAdams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 69%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPConner Prairie Museum Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +85%
- ATARSENAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +180%
- FHFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PTPERRY TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +22%
- WMWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -13%
- TSThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +18%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Indiana tech is a private, independent, and non-denominational university. students are prepared for active participation in the complex, global society of the 21st century and are motivated toward a life of significance and worth. about…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
To provide philanthropic support to indiana university of pennsylvania.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ARSENAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds AINSLEY'S ANGELS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds PERRY TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds ST RICHARD'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Elementary PTO Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McAdams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McAdams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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