How much did MERIDIAN FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$110kHealth$65kPhilanthropy$43kEmployment$40kCommunity Improvement$35kArts & Culture$30kHousing & Shelter$12kAnimals$10kEducation$10kOther$161k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

indianapolis

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

GOODWILL FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA INC$30,000
TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC$25,000
YOU YES YOU PROJECT INC$20,000
BIG CAR MEDIA INC (BIG CAR COLLABORATIVE)$20,000
RIVER WEST THEATRE INC (FONSECA THEATRE COMPANY)$18,000
ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC$12,000
INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC (INDIANAPOLIS ZOO)$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Indianapolis

The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.

Education

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc

The organization's mission is to create extraordinary learning experiences across the arts, sciences and humanities that have the power to transform the lives of children and families.

Arts & Culture

Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Indiana University Foundation

To maximize private philanthropic support for Indiana University

Education

Indiana University Research & Technology

The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…

Education

Catalyst Trust of Indiana

To create a flexible give-grow-grant entity for making local missional investments to fund and facilitate transformative community ventures.

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

The foundation conducts studies, produces reports, and establishes initiatives to generate solutions to enhance indiana's economic future and quality of life.

Education

Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc

Rooted in the heart of Indiana, Indiana Repertory Theatre is committed to building a vital, vibrant, and informed community through the transformational power of live theatre. The IRT produces inclusive, top-quality, professional theatre…

Arts & Culture

Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc

The ibri is an independent life sciences research institute focused on addressing major underserved areas of public health including diabetes, pediatric rare diseases, and alzheimer's disease. the ibri facilitates the growth of the…

Science & Tech

Indiana University Health Arnett Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership Inc

to create affordable housing solutions for people with low and moderate incomes, and collaborate to enhance the quality of life in Indianapolis neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is 16 Tech Community Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

872/7,803

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

24/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$192,500Human Services$110,000Health$65,000Philanthropy$42,500Employment$40,000Community Improvement$35,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN44.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eli Lilly and Company Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MERIDIAN FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NAPTOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881524530 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NAPTOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Meridian Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Meridian Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MERIDIAN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meridian Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MERIDIAN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meridian Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph