Indiana · Nonprofit
CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC
CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,031 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COUNTY TOURISM INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Carmel Christkindlmarkt Inc does
Mission
Carmel Christkindlmarkt Inc's mission is to benefit the community by conducting educational and cultural activities of germanic culture through lectures, storytelling, discussions, musical performances, cultural presentations and an annual christkindlmarkt festival.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Carmel christkindlmarkt has maintained its goals of benefitting the community by conducting educational and cultural activities of germanic culture through its hosting of a continually growing festival known as christkindlmarkt. The 2024 festival took place between november 2024 and december 2024 serving thousands of guests and hosting hundreds of culturally relevant performances and educational activities. Through lectures, storytelling, discussions, musical performances, and cultural presentations christkindlmarkt has enriched cultural awareness of not just residents of the city of carmel indiana but citizens from around the nation.
$1,613,727 spent$2,542,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,613,727.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.2M (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maria Rosenfeld
CEO
Board chair
Maddie Augustus
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $16.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC?
- CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,031 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COUNTY TOURISM INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,031 in grants to CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC?
- HAMILTON COUNTY TOURISM INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing