Indiana · Private foundation
Zink Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $162k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Zink Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $45k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $58k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $67k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $42k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $63k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $13k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Goodwill Legacy Group Inc | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $17,745 | 6 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cicoa Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Avondale Meadows Academy Inc D/B/A United Schools of Indianapolis | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Art Center Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc | $14,745 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zink Family 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · The R B Annis Educational Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Zink Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Zink Family Foundation Inc give?
- Zink Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Zink Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Zink Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ($29k), Goodwill Legacy Group Inc ($22k), Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ($20k).
- Does Zink Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zink Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zink Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc.
- Where is Zink Family Foundation Inc based?
- Zink Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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