Indiana · Private foundation
Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $801k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $240,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 | 22 | $556k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $435k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $458k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $650k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $679k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $406k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $306k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $42k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Enhancement Projects Inc | $1,331,625 | 8 | 60% |
| Cardinal Greenway Inc | $308,020 | 8 | 9% |
| Muncie Downtown Dev Partnership | $254,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Red-Tail Land Conservancy Inc | $253,136 | 7 | 12% |
| Ross Community Center Inc | $165,700 | 3 | 12% |
| City of Muncie-Mayor's Office | $134,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Muncie Indiana Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Muncie Children's Museum Inc | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muncie Public Library | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($388k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Ball Brothers Foundation · George and Frances Ball Foundation · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Muncie Endurathon Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc
- How much does Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc give?
- Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $800,916 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (36%), Philanthropy (23%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Community Enhancement Projects Inc ($1.3M), Cardinal Greenway Inc ($308k), Muncie Downtown Dev Partnership ($254k).
- Does Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ball Brothers Foundation, George and Frances Ball Foundation, The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc.
- Where is Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc based?
- Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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