Indiana · Nonprofit
MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC
MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,470 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($590,032). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $306k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $855k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Midtown Indianapolis Inc does
Mission
Midtown indy exists to cultivate an equitable, healthy, and sustainable community in which stakeholders of all incomes, races, and ethnicities have access to the opportunities, services, and amenities they need to thrive. Specifically, midtown's work is focused on 1) building a sense of community; 2) support for community based and minority businesses and job skills development; 3) improvement of transportation options and the vitality of key commercial corridors and nodes; 4) improvement of housing options and public spaces.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community development and neighborhood initiatives: midtown indy advanced community development efforts to expand housing and strengthen commercial corridors within its service area. In 2025, the organization led progress on a key mixed-use development at 46th street and college avenue, a formerly vacant brownfield site, with a development agreement in place for a project projected to include 32 housing units and nearly 2000 sq. Ft. Of commercial space. Midtown indy also participated in planning and collaboration for two additional mixed-use developments at 38th and illinois street and 42nd and college avenue, supporting increased housing and neighborhood-serving amenitites. In addition, midtown indy supported neighborhood improvements initiatives, including assisting the sobro neighborhood with a grant-funded signage project, and convened stateholders through the midtown economic council to advance corridor improvements and economic development strategies along key corridors, including 38th street and in broad ripple. The efforts served multiple neighborhoods, residents, and businesses across the midtown service area throughout the year.
$37,754 spentof which $1,924 as grants25% of program spendingCommunity communications and outreach: midtown indy produced and distributed four issues of the midtown indy magazine in 2025, reaching approximately 24,000 households and businesses per issue through direct mail and local distribution. The magazine serves as a key communication tool providing residents and businesses with information on community resources, development updates, local events, neighborhood news, and opportunities for civic engagement. Due to strong community demand and positive reader feedback, midtown indy expanded the publication by 8 additional pages to increase coverage of local content. This program supports informed community participation and strengthens connections among residents, neighborhoods, and local businesses across the midtown service area.
$59,088 spent39% of program spendingIncreasing food access through urban farming: in 2025, midtown indy utilized grant funding to facilitate the development of a new urban farm on a previously vacant and underutilized parcel within a designated food desert. Midtown indy coordinated a partnership that enabled the sale of a church-owned property to a local organization committed to long-term community use, establishing the site for agriculture purposes. Midtown indy also supported the identification of a minority urban farmer who will lease-to-own the property, creating a pathway to land ownership and long-term economic opportunity. Grant funds were used to prepare the site for farming, including installation of raised garden beds, soil, fencing, a storage shed, and site signage. The urban farm is expected to increase access to fresh food and serve as a community resource through pop-up markets, educational workships for all ages, and community events. This initiative advances food access, equitable land use, and community revitalization within the midtown service area.
$53,895 spentof which $70,841 as grants36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $150,737.
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 2020 to 2021, from $905k to $559k (−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: 2017 61% · 2018 104% · 2019 523% · 2020 38% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Rachel Dickerson
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Fisher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $172k → $133k.
3 of 11 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 MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS 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
MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 94% · 2019 51% · 2020 89% · 2021 52% · 2022 87% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC?
- MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,470 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($590,032). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $855,470 in grants to MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS INC?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDTOWN INDIANAPOLIS 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.
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 11 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