Indiana · Private foundation
Prime 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,470,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Prime Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 14 | $1.7M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.6M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.6M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $900k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.0M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Park Inc | $8,525,268 | 8 | 94% |
| Potawatomi Zoological Society Inc | $965,000 | 8 | 1% |
| St Joseph County 4-H Fair Inc | $184,539 | 8 | 2% |
| Nations of Coaches Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tj Martell Foundation | $68,370 | 2 | 2% |
| The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc | $64,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beacon Health Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Boer Goat Association | $36,500 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($621k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Prime Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Marshall County Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc · Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Everwise Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Prime Foundation Inc
- How much does Prime Foundation Inc give?
- Prime Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $1,725,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Prime Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (80%), Animals (9%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Prime Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Newton Park Inc ($8.5M), Potawatomi Zoological Society Inc ($965k), St Joseph County 4-H Fair Inc ($185k).
- Does Prime Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Prime 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 Prime Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Judd Leighton Foundation Inc.
- Where is Prime Foundation Inc based?
- Prime Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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