Indiana · Private foundation
Mennel Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Mennel Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $168k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Mennel Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 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 | 5 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $8k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $6k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Inc | $15,080 | 6 | n/a |
| St Mary's Child Center Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $6,500 | 6 | n/a |
| St Theodore Guerin High School | $2,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Prevail Inc of Hamilton County | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Noblesville Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Overdose Lifeline Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marian University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Opportunity Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
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: Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mennel Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Mennel Family Foundation Inc give?
- Mennel Family Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $15,540 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mennel Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (54%), Religion (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are Mennel Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Inc ($15k), St Mary's Child Center Inc ($8k), Indiana University School of Medicine ($7k).
- Does Mennel Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mennel Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mennel Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, The Brave Heart Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mennel Family Foundation Inc based?
- Mennel Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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