Indiana · Public charity
Pacers Foundation Inc
The foundation is dedicated to raising funds in support of youth-oriented charities and programs across the state of indiana. It seeks to draw on the energy, team pride, and spirit of selflessness that characterize pacer basketball to help make a difference for young people.
- $669k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $491k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Pacers Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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 | 20 | $391k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $283k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $52k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $80k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $195k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $300k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $313k | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc | $354,201 | 7 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis Inc | $72,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $59,492 | 6 | 0% |
| Listen to Our Future Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center at Crooked Creek | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Central Indiana Police Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jakks Pacific Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $37,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Playworks Education Energized | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 122 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pacers Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Samerian Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Pacers Foundation Inc
- How much does Pacers Foundation Inc give?
- Pacers Foundation Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $491,458, out of $668,804 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pacers Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (94%), Human Services (4%), Education (1%).
- Who are Pacers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc ($354k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis Inc ($72k), Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc ($59k).
- Does Pacers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pacers Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Pacers Foundation Inc based?
- Pacers Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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