Indiana · Nonprofit
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,805,771 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,029,902). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of the CHHF to preserve and celebrate the architectural, cultural and natural heritage of the city's oldest urban green space, Crown Hill Cemetery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Historic preservation is the cornerstone of CHHF's mission. Crown Hill Cemetery was founded as a "Rural Cemetery" for Indianapolis in 1863 in the middle of the Civil War. The CHHF founded in 1984 preserves and celebrates Crown Hill's 555 acres of land, 25 miles of winding roads, 3 miles of brick and wrought iron fence, 6 historic structures, 60 historic family mausoleums, and more than 225,000 monuments and markers that are beautiful works of art commemorating past generations. In 2025 staff, volunteers, and preservationists restored the historic 1904 Sentry House, 2 family mausoleums, and 600 monuments.
$963,212 spent$53,855 earned by the program100% of program spendingWith more than 11,000 inventoried trees and 137 unique species, Crown Hill is regarded as "the single best place for tree lovers in the city." The CHHF secured Level II accreditation status for The Crown Hill Arboretum from the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. The CHHF established an outdoor learning lab in the South Woods of the Crown Hill Arboretum that includes a pollinator garden, student/picnic seating area, nature trail, and urban prairie. In 2025 staff, volunteers, and arborists planted 300 new trees and led 85 Crown Hill Cemetery & Arboretum guided tours.
Crown Hill Cemetery is a vast community resource serving as a cemetery, an arboretum, a cultural landmark, and a unique outdoor classroom. The CHHF offers K-thru-12 standards-based field trips at no cost to Hoosier students in order to make learning opportunities available to all. The CHHF provides Crown Hill Homeschool Day, Indiana's largest, free educational day with over 40 exhibitors, educational institutions, and cultural organizations. The CHHF collaborates with colleges and universities to provide internships, research, and volunteer opportunities. In 2025 staff, volunteers, and educators engaged 8,000 participants in CHHF programs including 4,500 students in free field trips and Homeschool Day.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $963,212.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $8.0M to $11M (+38%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Otto N Frenzel IV
Chairman, Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $147k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Crown Hill Heritage Foundation 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
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 39% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 77% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Crown Hill Heritage Foundation 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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Crown Hill Cemetery · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crown Hill Heritage Foundation 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 Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc?
- Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,805,771 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,029,902). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,805,771 in grants to Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,029,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crown Hill Heritage Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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