· Private foundation
The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREBEUF FUND | $10,785 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS | $3,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $1,750 |
| ST RICHARDS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,150 |
| MID-NORTH FOOD PANTRY INC | $750 |
| CROSSROADS OF AMERICAS COUNCIL | $750 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $626 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $300 |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE | $250 |
| BROTHERS OF HOLY CROSS | $250 |
| CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS | $250 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 100% of The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +85%
- SRST RICHARD'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +30%
Indiana University Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- BPBOULEVARD PLACE FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SSPEAKEASYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANAone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -69%
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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 70 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gramelspacher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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