How much does The R B Annis Educational Foundation give?

The R B Annis Educational Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,031,975 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The R B Annis Educational Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (36%), Environment (7%).

Who are The R B Annis Educational Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Indianapolis ($1.0M), Newfields Inc ($548k), Sterling College ($355k).

Does The R B Annis Educational Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The R B Annis Educational Foundation 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 R B Annis Educational Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The R B Annis Educational Foundation based?

The R B Annis Educational Foundation is based in IN.

The R B Annis Educational Foundation

The R B Annis Educational Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The R B Annis Educational Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$505k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.7MEnvironment$316kHuman Services$126kYouth Development$100kReligion$74kHealth$42kAnimals$24kOther$0

02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $54k
$10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$50k–250k5 grants · $433k
$250k+1 grant · $505k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS	$505,000
CONNER PRAIRIE	$151,000
NEWFIELDS	$105,000
THE MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM	$76,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS	$51,000
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM	$50,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$10,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
STERLING COLLEGE	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS	$10,000
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$7,250
DISCOVERING BROADWAY INC	$5,000
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION	$4,250
TRI-CITIES HISTORICAL MUSEUM	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,975

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 41 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-20%

Still filing today

76%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

UO
University of Indianapolis
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
CP
Conner Prairie Museum Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +17%
EM
EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +46%

Funded once

TI
THE INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
one grant, 2020 · $101k
GV
GRAND VALLEY STATE RB ANNIS WATER RESOURCES INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $40k
GH
GRAND HAVEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION THRU GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art Inc

Provides contemporary art exhibitions and programs to the community that are aesthetically compelling, conceptually rigorous, and socially impactful.

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Robert & Ellen Haan Museum of Indiana Art Inc

The mission of the haan museum of indiana art is to preserve and share the best of indiana arts and the historic museum property; to broaden public awareness of indiana arts, american furniture, and classical architecture through…

Arts & Culture

Indiana Symphony Society Inc

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.

Arts & Culture

Indiana Medical History Museum Inc

Our mission is to present the rich medical history of Indiana by preserving the Old Pathology Building collecting medical artifacts and providing exhibits publications and programs.

Arts & Culture

Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc

The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.

Arts & Culture

Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture

Indiana Museum of Art Inc

The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

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Intermuseum Conservation Association

Intermuseum conservation association (ica-art conservation) protects, preserves, and enriches our shared heritage of art and material culture through conservation, preservation, and education.

Arts & Culture

The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana State Museum Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

26/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,934,600Education$1,798,999Other$761,400Youth Development$115,000Housing & Shelter$90,000Health$27,250Animals$16,675

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.

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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lacy Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Ackerman Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The R B Annis Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The R B Annis Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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