Indiana · Public charity
The Arts Federation Inc
Our mission: grow the arts: access, experience, and opportunityour vision: all individuals and communities will experience the vitality of the arts
- $484k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $463k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,660
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Arts Federation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $463k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $479k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $759k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $250k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $250k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $428k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $452k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $414k | 85% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$94kEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$56kEnvironment$41kFood & Nutrition$17k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Songwriters Association of Mid-North Indiana | $372,398 | 4 | 70% |
| Monon Civic Preservation Society | $331,510 | 6 | 79% |
| Carroll County Historical Society Inc | $246,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Tippecanoe County Historical Association | $216,176 | 4 | 14% |
| The Lafayette Symphony Inc | $168,806 | 7 | 14% |
| Delphi Opera House Inc | $158,874 | 6 | 33% |
| Friends of the Frankfort Public Library | $152,601 | 5 | 99% |
| Robert & Ellen Haan Museum of Indiana Art Inc | $138,170 | 9 | 21% |
| Veedersburg Revitalization Association Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 90% |
| Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal | $113,218 | 3 | 17% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Songwriters Association of Mid-North Indiana | $372,398 | 4 | 70% |
| Monon Civic Preservation Society | $331,510 | 6 | 79% |
| Carroll County Historical Society Inc | $246,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Tippecanoe County Historical Association | $216,176 | 4 | 14% |
| The Lafayette Symphony Inc | $168,806 | 7 | 14% |
| Delphi Opera House Inc | $158,874 | 6 | 33% |
| Friends of the Frankfort Public Library | $152,601 | 5 | 99% |
| Robert & Ellen Haan Museum of Indiana Art Inc | $138,170 | 9 | 21% |
| Veedersburg Revitalization Association Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 90% |
| Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal | $113,218 | 3 | 17% |
| Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette | $101,256 | 7 | 7% |
| Art Museum of Greater Lafayette Inc | $92,465 | 6 | 5% |
| Long Center Inc Long Center for the Performing | $92,116 | 6 | 3% |
| Flora Community Club | $90,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Flora Community Club Inc | $80,707 | 2 | 53% |
| Illiana Antique Power Association | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lafayette Citizens Band Inc | $71,021 | 7 | 18% |
| The Bach Chorale Singers Inc | $69,729 | 6 | 12% |
| Indiana Fiddlers Gathering Inc | $67,899 | 6 | 20% |
| Prairie Preservation Guild Ltd | $66,741 | 6 | 15% |
| On-Stage Foundation Inc | $65,955 | 3 | 19% |
| Kokomo Symphonic Society Inc | $62,077 | 6 | 15% |
| Kokomo Civic Theatre Inc | $60,985 | 6 | 23% |
| Kokomo Park Band Inc | $60,013 | 6 | 16% |
| Prairie Arts Council Inc | $55,015 | 6 | 100% |
| Delphi Preservation Society Inc | $51,127 | 4 | 15% |
| Illiana Antique Power Association | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Museums at Prophetstown Inc | $49,054 | 2 | 7% |
| The Ralph & Lilian Fendig Summer Theatre for Children Inc | $39,236 | 3 | 27% |
| Kokomo Community Concerts Inc | $36,257 | 4 | 31% |
| Thomas Duncan Hall Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 52% |
| Cass County Arts Alliance Inc | $31,757 | 4 | 41% |
| Heartland Heritage Inc | $27,234 | 2 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Cultural | $27,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Athens of Indiana Arts Studios & Gallery Inc | $26,362 | 2 | 24% |
| Wabash Valley Youth Symphony Inc | $25,754 | 3 | 25% |
| Logansport Art Association Inc | $24,959 | 3 | n/a |
| Civic Players of Logansport Inc | $23,864 | 3 | n/a |
| Curtain Call Inc | $17,478 | 2 | 11% |
| Adams Mill Inc | $17,226 | 2 | n/a |
| Indiana Filmmakers Network Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Center of West Lafayette Inc | $13,784 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Psi Iota XI Sorority | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Delphi Public Library | $7,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulaski County Tribe | $7,920 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Center for Wellness and Education Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Commission Corporation | $6,550 | 1 | n/a |
| L&A Park Foundation Inc | $6,400 | 1 | 4% |
| Montgomery Co Cultural Foundation | $6,053 | 1 | 7% |
| West Lafayette Public library | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wabash College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Lafayette Parkes and Rec | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tipton County Pork Festival Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 58% |
| Msd of Warren County | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Attica Main Street Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Arts Federation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.
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.
Community Foundation of Howard CountyIN40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Howard County · Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About The Arts Federation Inc
- How much does The Arts Federation Inc give?
- The Arts Federation Inc reported 23 itemized grants totaling $463,348, out of $483,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Arts Federation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Community Improvement (3%), Education (2%).
- Who are The Arts Federation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Songwriters Association of Mid-North Indiana ($372k), Monon Civic Preservation Society ($332k), Carroll County Historical Society Inc ($247k).
- Does The Arts Federation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Federation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Howard County, Greater Lafayette Community Foundation, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Arts Federation Inc based?
- The Arts Federation Inc is based in IN.
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