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The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,785
Organizations funded a year
12 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$638k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$23k29%
FY202330$22k37%
FY202231$24k52%
FY202120$18k25%
FY202021$18k38%
FY201914$17k14%
FY201812$17k0%
FY201718$15kn/a
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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 2024.

Philanthropy$53kEducation$33kReligion$18kCommunity Improvement$14kRecreation & Sports$14kFood & Nutrition$12kAnimals$8kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
WY
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc$8,19480%
St Richard's Episcopal School$3,58030%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$3,45040%
Indiana University Foundation$3,03540%
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc$2,38060%
Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-Of-The-Woods$1,7504n/a
Mid-North Food Pantry Inc$1,75021%
Congregation of Holy Cross United States Province Inc$1,6507n/a
Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated$1,07580%
Indiana Citizen Education Foundation Inc$75060%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $8,194 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Richard's Episcopal School: $3,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $3,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $3,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc: $2,380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMid-North Food Pantry Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSycamore Land Trust Incorporated: $1,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Citizen Education Foundation Inc: $750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMidtown Indianapolis Inc: $700 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of South Central Indiana: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeridian Kessler Neighborhood Assoc: $450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHolliday Park Foundation Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAspire Higher Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of 38th Inc: $250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetProject Never Broken Inc: $229 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreenwich Academy Inc: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Learning Center Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoburn Place Safehaven II Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaurel School: $75 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTechpoint Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 25.

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Ayres Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc

How much does The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc give?
The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $24,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Education (20%), Religion (11%).
Who are The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ($8k), St Richard's Episcopal School ($4k), St Baldrick's Foundation Inc ($3k).
Does The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc based?
The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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