· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Bartholomew Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Carlow University | $10,000 |
| Harvest of Hope Pantry | $5,000 |
| Our Hospice South Central Indiana | $5,000 |
| Marfa Educational Foundation | $3,000 |
| Jefferson College Historical Society | $2,000 |
| United Way of Bartholomew County | $2,000 |
| Goldwater Institute | $2,000 |
| Indiana Golf Foundation | $1,000 |
| Marfa Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Foundation for Youth | $1,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Marfa Public Library | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCARLOW UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +65%
- HOHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +104%
- OHOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
- CPColumbus Park Foundationone grant, 2023 · $2k
- SHSACRED HEART OF MARY PARISHone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 51 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.
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MARFA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS OF HONOR ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kirr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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