Indiana · Private foundation
Samerian Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Samerian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 85 | $4.8M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $4.6M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $4.4M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $4.4M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $4.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana University Foundation | $10,240,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $5,150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Humane Society for Hamilton County | $1,562,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Human Rights First | $400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $375,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 500 Festival Foundation Inc | $305,000 | 4 | 15% |
| The Neurosurgical Atlas Inc | $166,667 | 1 | 18% |
| Indiana Sports Corporation | $166,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Child Advocates Inc | $165,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $111,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samerian Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Samerian Foundation Inc
- How much does Samerian Foundation Inc give?
- Samerian Foundation Inc reported 93 grants totaling $4,859,596 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Samerian Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Samerian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Indiana University Foundation ($10M), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($5.2M), Humane Society for Hamilton County ($1.6M).
- Does Samerian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samerian Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samerian Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is Samerian Foundation Inc based?
- Samerian Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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