Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Indianapolis, Indiana

240
foundations with an Indianapolis address
$4.37B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
73
say they accept unsolicited
$7,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 240 foundations that gave an Indianapolis, Indiana address on their tax filing — 216 private foundations and 24 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $4.37 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 73 of them (30%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is an Indianapolis foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 240 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 48 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Indianapolis, Indiana
Lilly Endowment Inc$50,000$3.86B$50–$400MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elevance Health Foundation Inc$100,000$33.4M$6,360–$4.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lumina Foundation for Education Inc$12,500$30M$500–$2.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust$35,000$22.7M$100–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation$2,500$21.3M$250–$17.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jean and Bernas Downing$1.3M$16.9M$20,000–$10.5MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc$25,000$16.5M$500–$4.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Inc$121,125$15.8M$5,000–$4.1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
David E Simon & Jacqueline S Simon$100,000$5.7M$500–$2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Samerian Foundation Inc$5,000$4.9M$1,000–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Health Foundation of Greater$31,250$3.6M$1,000–$636,632FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Clowes Fund Incorporated$3.1M$3.1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
White Oak Foundation Inc$37,500$3M$5,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rjs Foundation Inc$3,178$2.5M$100–$2.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
JD Finish Line Foundation Inc$10,000$2.2M$20–$338,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
OneAmerica Foundation Inc$8,000$1M$150–$327,391FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The J E Fehsenfeld Family Foundation Inc$7,500$882,000$500–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ackerman Foundation$10,000$810,000$5,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hulman & Company Foundation Inc$15,000$802,794$1,500–$125,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elanco Foundation Inc$23,349$775,404$990–$250,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
David P Sheetz Foundation$15,000$700,000$2,000–$300,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Abc Charities$25,000$677,615$3,840–$482,577FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hoover Family Foundation$8,000$581,300$1,000–$10,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson$9,000$507,500$5,000–$42,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hart N and Simona Hasten Family$1,500$360,486$36–$75,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.