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Meridian Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$132kHealth$93kArts & Culture$81kEducation$60kPhilanthropy$53kEmployment$50kCommunity Improvement$45kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZIONSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MARIAN UNIVERSITY$20,000
P30 INC$20,000
NEUROHOPE OF INDIANA INC$18,000
FREE PRESS INDIANA$18,000
PACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC$16,500
TRIPLE T ACADEMY INC$15,000
THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC$12,500
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $17k → 15%LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INDIANA: $50k → 16%TRIPLE T ACADEMY INC: $15k → 16%BE NIMBLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%EARLY LEARNING INDIANA: $10k → 16%YOU YES YOU PROJECT INC: $20k → 16%JOY'S HOUSE: $10k → 16%PATCHWORK INDY: $10k → 16%CICO AGING & IN-HOME SOLUTIONS: $10k → 16%MARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

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

Health
6
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

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

Health
7
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
8
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
9
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
10
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
11
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
12
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cicp Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triple T Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter Schools IndianaIndianapolis Neighborhood D…Professional Association Ne…Youth Sports & Athletics Or…Early Childhood Care CentersPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr15%26%5–10yr15%16%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr26%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr15%23%5–10yr15%14%10–20yr13%22%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr26%21%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
1,009/7,790

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.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
23/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY S…YOU YES YOU PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOU YES YOU PROJECT INCPACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $16,500 · Human ServicesPACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC…TRIPLE T ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTRIPLE T ACADEMY INCCICOA AGING & IN-HOME SOLUTIONS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCICOA AGING & IN-HOME SOLUT…EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INCTMP Enterprises Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTMP Enterprises IncMARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SE…Be Nimble Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesBe Nimble Foundation IncPATCHWORK INDY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPATCHWORK INDY INCBIG CAR MEDIA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBIG CAR MEDIA IN…FREE PRESS INDIANA — $18,000 · Arts & CultureFREE PRESS INDIA…RIVER WEST THEATRE INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER WEST THEAT…THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW HARMONY …Conner Prairie Museum Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie M…NAPTOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAPTOWN AFRICAN …INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS FIL…TRINITY FREE CLINIC INC — $25,000 · HealthTRINITY FREE C…NEUROHOPE OF INDIANA INC — $18,000 · HealthNEUROHOPE OF I…PROJECT WILL INC — $10,000 · HealthPROJECT WILL I…Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthEskenazi Healt…THE MILK BANK INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE MILK BANK …OVERDOSE LIFELINE INC — $10,000 · HealthOVERDOSE LIFEL…P30 INC — $20,000 · OtherP30 INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $12,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOU…INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC (INDIANAPOLIS ZOO) — $10,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY…ONE VOICE COALITION OF MARTINDALE BRIGHTWOOD INC — $10,000 · OtherONE VOICE COALITION OF MARTINDA…SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW — $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST ANDREWLAUNCH HOPE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherLAUNCH HOPE FOUNDATIONESKENAZI FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherESKENAZI FOUNDATIONCICP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherCICP FOUNDATION INC16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $10,000 · Other16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATIONPattern Inc — $10,000 · OtherPattern IncZIONSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherZIONSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION INCST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $12,000 · OtherST MATTHEWS HOUSE INCMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc — $10,000 · OtherMedical Mutts Service Dogs IncDEEPLY INGRAINED INC — $10,000 · OtherDEEPLY INGRAINED INCMarian University — $20,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation — $10,000 · EducationChristel House Academy Inc — $10,000 · EducationPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 · EducationCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $12,500 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EmploymentLATINAS WELDING GUILD — $10,000 · Employment
Human Services$161,500Arts & Culture$98,500Health$83,000Other$184,500Education$50,000Philanthropy$42,500Employment$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMarian University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CAR MEDIA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOU YES YOU PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRIVER WEST THEATRE INC — $18,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCICP FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW HARMONY PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $12,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCICOA AGING & IN-HOME SOLUTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT WILL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINAS WELDING GUILD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILK BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristel House Academy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPTOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBe Nimble Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPattern Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEEPLY INGRAINED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOVERDOSE LIFELINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncNicholas H Noyes Jr M…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Lumina Foundation for…Samerian Foundation I…Richard M Fairbanks F…United Way of Central…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Maurer Family Foundat…
The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN52.6× affinity24 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 Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc

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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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