Indiana · Private foundation
Pay It Forward 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $105k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Pay It Forward Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $57k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $21k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| C4one Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Fellowship Missions Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Extended Hand Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Heartline Pregnancy Center Inc | $3,238 | 1 | 1% |
| NG4C Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lifewise Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Team Hope in Motion Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Walking Like Jesus Ministries Inc | $1,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Beloved Not Forgotten Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Pay It Forward Foundation Inc
- How much does Pay It Forward Foundation Inc give?
- Pay It Forward Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pay It Forward Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Health (23%), Religion (20%).
- Who are Pay It Forward Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: C4one Inc ($36k), Fellowship Missions Inc ($13k), Extended Hand Ministries Inc ($10k).
- Does Pay It Forward Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pay It Forward 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 Pay It Forward Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Pay It Forward Foundation Inc based?
- Pay It Forward Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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