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ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC
ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $657k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation Inc does
Programs
We support seminars and educational programs for the community by making our properties available for use and by assisting organizations that conduct such activities.
The following properties were maintained and improved:the following properties were maintained and improved: the roofless church the roofless church was designed by phillip johnson of new york city. It won the first honor award of the american institute of architects in 1961. Many weddings are performed in the church with ministers of different denominations presiding over each. Gate house the first house built by the harmonists in 1814. It was purchased by the robert lee blaffer foundation. It was moved from it's location on main street. It has been restored with the original logs and preserved. It houses artists in residence throughout the year. Mother superior the mother superior house and kitchen annex are located at the corner of main and granary. The mother superior is used as lodging for visiting guests of the foundation. The poet house the poet house is located at the corner of west and granary. The poet house is used as lodging for visiting guests of the foundation. It periodi
$490,435 spentThe town of new harmony was founded in 1814 as a utopian society. It has a long history of cultural and intellectual development and activity which continues into the present day. It is recognized world wide for it's unique historic heritage and it's melding of this legacy with a unique atmosphere which promotes and encourages current innovation and development in numerous areas of human endeavor. The robert lee blaffer foundation primary mission is to preserve, promote and support, financially and otherwise, the various historical and educational attributes of the town of new harmony. To that end the foundation invites other organizations to present seminars, concerts and other cultural and educational activities which are held in the community. These activities are directly related to the charitable purpose of the foundation.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $6.2M to $6.5M (+4%).
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
Kent Parker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $15k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 ROBERT LEE BLAFFER 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
ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2023 67% — 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
91% of ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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
ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $285k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC
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In Indiana
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT LEE BLAFFER FOUNDATION INC?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT LEE BLAFFER 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.
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 5 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