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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 FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Meridian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$145k100%
FY20247$135k100%
FY202312$123k100%
FY20228$120k100%
FY20218$85k100%
FY20202$23kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Meridian Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc$50,00011%
Goodwill Legacy Group Foundation Inc$30,00011%
Trinity Free Clinic Inc$25,00012%
Zionsville Parks Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Big Car Media Inc$20,00011%
Marian University$20,00010%
You Yes You Project Inc$20,00017%
Free Press Indiana$18,0001n/a
River West Theatre Inc$18,00017%
Neurohope of Indiana Inc$18,0001n/a
Pace Community Action Agency Inc$16,5001n/a
Cicp Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Triple T Academy Inc$15,0001n/a
United Way of Central Indiana Inc$12,50010%
The New Harmony Project Inc$12,50013%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana$12,50012%
St Matthews House Inc$12,00010%
Purdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc$10,00010%
Medical Mutts Service Dogs Inc$10,00011%
Latinas Welding Guild$10,00012%
Christel House Academy Inc$10,00010%
Cicoa Aging & In-Home Solutions Inc$10,00010%
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Naptown African American Theatre Collective Inc$10,00018%
The Milk Bank Inc$10,00010%
Meals on Wheels Inc$10,00010%
Early Learning Indiana Inc$10,00010%
Overdose Lifeline Inc$10,00010%
Indiana University Foundation$10,00010%
Deeply Ingrained Inc$10,00014%
Indianapolis Film Project Inc$10,00011%
Pattern Inc$10,00013%
Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc$10,00010%
One Voice Coalition of Martindale Brightwood Inc$10,0001n/a
Be Nimble Foundation Inc$10,00011%
16 Tech Community Corporation$10,00010%
Project Will Inc$10,00012%
TMP Enterprises Inc$10,00011%
Conner Prairie Museum Inc$10,00010%
Patchwork Indy Inc$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meridian Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTrinity Free Clinic Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBig Car Media Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMarian University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetUnited Way of Central Indiana Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Harmony Project Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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 budgetPurdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLatinas Welding Guild: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChristel House Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCicoa Aging & In-Home Solutions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNaptown African American Theatre Collective Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetThe Milk Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEarly Learning Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOverdose Lifeline Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeeply Ingrained Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIndianapolis Film Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPattern Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMartin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBe Nimble Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget16 Tech Community Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Will Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Meridian Foundation Inc

How much does Meridian Foundation Inc give?
Meridian Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Meridian Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Meridian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc ($50k), Goodwill Legacy Group Foundation Inc ($30k), Trinity Free Clinic Inc ($25k).
Does Meridian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meridian Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meridian Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
Where is Meridian Foundation Inc based?
Meridian Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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