· Private foundation
Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $643k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE & DELAWARE COUNTY INC | $240,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC | $140,100 |
| MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $85,000 |
| MUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $67,000 |
| CARDINAL GREENWAY INC | $60,000 |
| RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY | $51,000 |
| URBAN LIGHT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $47,000 |
| ROSS COMMUNITY CENTER | $24,000 |
| HALTEMAN VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS | $13,000 |
| WHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $10,765 |
| MINNETRISTA CULTURAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| CONSERVATION LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| STRONG CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 100%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +91% · 60% of their budget
- MDMUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEV PARTNERSHIP7× · 2018–2025 · $254k · revenue +61%
- RLRED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $253k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $60k
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +4%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The muncie sports commission exists to attract, create, host, and support sporting events and recreational opportunities for delaware county, indiana.
To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
To develop and promote development and growth of the convention, recreation and visitor industry in the county of delaware, state of indiana.
Aid in the economic revitalization of muncie indiana through securing land for housing initiatives and urban renewal
To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
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.
The purpose is to promote and develop economic expansion within morgan county, indiana.
Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GREENWAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE DOWNTOWN DEV PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LIGHT CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITELY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds Hoosier Environmental Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE ACTION PLAN INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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