Indiana · Nonprofit
INDY BOOK PROJECT INC
INDY BOOK PROJECT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,306 to it, the largest being THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION ($17,989). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Indy Book Project Inc does
Mission
The Indy Book Projects mission is to ensure all children in Central Indiana have access to books in their homes We collect new and gently used childrens books from the community and redistribute them through our partnerships with community centers pediatrician offices health clinics food pantries schools little free libraries and other nonprofit organizations We focus on populations with little to no access to books in their homes Our organization is 100 volunteer run We have no paid employees We consist of a working board of 5 individuals plus nearly 100 volunteers assisting with book drives sorting books filling book requests and delivering books into the community In 2025 we distributed 90812 books to children across Central Indiana Other Income reported on 990-EZ Line 8 relates to the in kind value of books received as donations from the community and redistributed to area children during the calendar year The majority of our donations consist of used book
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Distributed 90812 books to children in Central Indiana in 2025
$132,650 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $132,650.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $48k to $38k (−21%).
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.
32% of INDY BOOK PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Amy Freytag
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $14 → $12k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 INDY BOOK PROJECT 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
INDY BOOK PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
INDY BOOK PROJECT INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
INDY BOOK PROJECT INC has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INDY BOOK PROJECT 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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDY BOOK PROJECT 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 INDY BOOK PROJECT INC?
- INDY BOOK PROJECT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,306 to it, the largest being THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION ($17,989). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDY BOOK PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $36,306 in grants to INDY BOOK PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDY BOOK PROJECT INC?
- THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDY BOOK PROJECT 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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