Indiana · Private foundation
The Forest Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Forest Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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 | 28 | $281k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $285k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $291k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $307k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $210k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $167k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $169k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $133k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $115,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Roaring Fork Conservancy | $107,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Park Tudor Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Second Helpings Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Sam's Wish Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 48% |
| Coburn Place Safehaven II Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Forest Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Ayres Foundation Inc · The Clowes Fund Incorporated
How this is measured
About The Forest Fund Inc
- How much does The Forest Fund Inc give?
- The Forest Fund Inc reported 28 grants totaling $280,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Forest Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Human Services (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Forest Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc ($200k), Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc ($130k), Salvation Army ($115k).
- Does The Forest Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Forest Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Forest Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Forest Fund Inc based?
- The Forest Fund Inc is based in IN.
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