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INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC

INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,350,058 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($23,671,408). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$31M
Net assets
$25M
17/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc does

Mission

Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. Creates, inspires, and sustains connections and cultural experiences that are accessible for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. Creates, inspires, and sustains connections and cultural experiences that are accessible for all. The indianapolis cultural trail is both a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and a world-class, internationally recognized linear park: the indianapolis cultural trail: a legacy of gene and marilyn glick. The cultural trail includes beautiful gardens, almost 1,000 trees and a dynamic public art collection in addition to providing cultural and wellness programming for the community.

    $3,571,689 spent$379,337 earned by the program
    77% of program spending
  2. The indiana pacers bikeshare program has 50 stations located on or near the indianapolis cultural trail: a legacy of gene & marilyn glick. This allows indianapolis cultural trail, inc. To provide publicly accessible bikes for people to use to experience the indianapolis cultural trail.

    $1,086,820 spent$258,876 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,658,509.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($840k) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2019 Revenue 2650 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 309 ($32M)2020 Revenue 150 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 309 ($32M)2021 Revenue 175 ($1.5M) Expenses 122 ($1.5M) Net assets 309 ($32M)2022 Revenue 231 ($1.9M) Expenses 118 ($1.5M) Net assets 313 ($32M)2023 Revenue 497 ($4.2M) Expenses 131 ($1.7M) Net assets 297 ($31M)2024 Revenue 1375 ($12M) Expenses 1224 ($16M) Net assets 259 ($27M)2025 Revenue 283 ($2.4M) Expenses 398 ($5.1M) Net assets 237 ($25M)
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Revenue (283)Expenses (398)Net assets (237)Peer revenue range

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 $31M to $28M (−10%).

$10M
$32M
$32M
$32M
$33M
$31M
$28M
$26M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2021 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$435k
’17
$21M
’19
−$6k
’20
−$81k
’21
$431k
’22
$2.5M
’23
−$4.1M
’24
−$2.7M
’25
13
months of
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

Karen Haley

Executive director

Board chair

Karen Spataro

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1617171618181818
Joined··+4+5+3+4+4+3
No longer listed··461443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $334k → $3.5M.

6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL 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

INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 84% · 2019 90% · 2020 95% · 2021 42% · 2022 74% · 2023 81% — 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

43% of INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

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IN
CA
CO
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−113% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC?
INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,350,058 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($23,671,408). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $31,350,058 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,671,408 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing