How much did SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER grant in FY2024?

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER reported 17 grants totaling $772,396 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER based?

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER is based in IN.

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$772k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$285k

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$870kEducation$236kEnvironment$227kCommunity Improvement$219kArts & Culture$99kCrime & Legal$9kOther$1.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

symphony

2020

boxparkmaintenance

2021

boxstreetparkbeautification

2022

park

2023

park improvementscelebrationneighborhoodconservation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $29k
$10k–50k3 grants · $90k
$50k–250k4 grants · $368k
$250k+1 grant · $285k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE & DELAWARE COUNTY INC$285,000
RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY$110,506
COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC$105,100
YMCA OF MUNCIE$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$52,800
MUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$45,000
EARLHAM NATURE RESERVE SYSTEM EARLHAM COLLEGE$23,280
CARDINAL GREENWAY INC$22,020
MINNETRISTA CULTURAL CENTER$7,000
ORCHESTRA INDIANA$5,000
CONSERVATION LAW CENTER$5,000
DESTINATION MUNCIE$3,500
DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
MUNCIE-DELAWARE CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL$2,000
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 19 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$472k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+15%

Still filing today

68%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE & DELAWARE COUNTY INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $870k · revenue +140%
RL
RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY
6× · 2019–2024 · $202k · revenue +47%
MD
MUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP
6× · 2018–2024 · $187k · revenue +48%

Funded once

TO
TOWN OF ALBANY
one grant, 2020 · $60k
IT
IVY TECH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +60%
MP
MUNCIE PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Muncie Sports Commission Inc

The muncie sports commission exists to attract, create, host, and support sporting events and recreational opportunities for delaware county, indiana.

Recreation & Sports

Muncie-Delaware County

Economic development

—

Arts Council of Southern Indiana

To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.

—

Indiana Humanities Council Inc

To promote the public humanities.

—

Muncie Land Bank Inc

Aid in the economic revitalization of muncie indiana through securing land for housing initiatives and urban renewal

Community Improvement

Indiana Museum of Art Inc

The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…

Arts & Culture

Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc

Enhancing quality of life and supporting economic development through advocacy and promotion of the Arts, Arts Education and Arts organizations in Southwestern Indiana.

Arts & Culture

Indiana Artisan Inc

Indiana Artisan is an economic development organization that identifies, recognizes, and promotes Indiana's highest-quality art and food artisans, helping them expand their businesses and through their work, expand a brand that defines…

Arts & Culture

Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated

The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.

Environment

Harrison Center for the Arts Inc

The Harrison Center for the Arts seeks to be a catalyst for renewal in the city of Indianapolis by fostering awareness, appreciation, and community for arts and culture.

Religion

Historical and Genealogical Society

The historical and genealogical society of indiana county seeks to promote a greater appreciation of the indiana community's rich heritage and a better understanding of life today. the society's purpose is to collect and preserve materials…

—

Indiana Conservation Voters

Icv advocated for sound conservation policies to protect the air, water and land that hoosier families rely on.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Muncie and the most unlike its peers is Whitely Community Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

11%

936/8,436

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

14/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$1,439,545Other$1,006,580Philanthropy$870,450Education$235,700Environment$227,136Community Improvement$218,690Arts & Culture$99,200Crime & Legal$9,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George and Frances Ball FoundationIN42.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George and Frances Ball Foundation · Ball Brothers Foundation · The Community Foundation of Muncie · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Edmund F and Virginia B Ball · American Electric Power Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Muncie Endurathon Inc · The Patricia Schaefer Foundation Tr · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300062049 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler?

Find your warmest path to Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler?

More from the funding graph

SHERMAN AND MARJORIE ZEIGLER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler?

More from the funding graph