Indiana · Private foundation
The Kirr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Kirr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 20 | $48k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $51k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $59k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $55k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $55k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $42k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $65k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow University | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Harvest of Hope Pantry | $36,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation for Youth Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Marfa Education Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Way of Bartholomew County Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $10,730 | 8 | 0% |
| Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum | $10,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kirr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · The Namaste Foundation Inc · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · Landmark Farm Foundation Inc · Repp Associates Foundation · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Kirr Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kirr Foundation Inc give?
- The Kirr Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $47,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Kirr Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Religion (17%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Kirr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carlow University ($80k), Harvest of Hope Pantry ($37k), Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc ($30k).
- Does The Kirr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kirr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kirr Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer, Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation, The Namaste Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kirr Foundation Inc based?
- The Kirr Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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