Community Foundation of
Marion, IN · EIN 31-1117791. Reported 128 grants totalling $3,109,452 to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,285. Half of what it reported fell between $8,981 and $27,151; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $213,689. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thriving Grant County Inc | Gas City, IN | $374,637 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fairmount Round Robins Cb Club Inc | Marion, IN | $299,551 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Grant County Indiana Inc | Marion, IN | $215,996 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Marion, IN | $196,396 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carey Services Inc | Marion, IN | $168,272 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Project Leadership Inc | Marion, IN | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grant County Rescue Mission Inc | Marion, IN | $142,452 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hope House Ministry Inc | Marion, IN | $123,617 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Frances Slocum Elementary School | Marion, IN | $105,241 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Grant County Inc | Marion, IN | $104,234 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | Marion, IN | $99,818 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Paul Catholic School | Marion, IN | $91,180 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Marion | Marion, IN | $84,896 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Gas City - Mayor Bill Rock | Gas City, IN | $75,548 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marion Community School of the Arts Inc | Marion, IN | $61,460 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mississinewa Community Schools | Gas City, IN | $58,630 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| East Central Indiana Robotics Inc | Matthews, IN | $57,227 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marion High School Alumni Association Inc | Marion, IN | $52,084 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Marion Arts Commission Inc | Marion, IN | $50,819 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Grant-Blackford Mental Health Inc | Marion, IN | $40,365 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Psi Iota Xi Sorority | Marion, IN | $39,838 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marion General Hospital | Marion, IN | $38,080 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Orchestra Indiana Inc | Muncie, IN | $36,185 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cancer Services of Grant County Inc | Marion, IN | $34,047 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels Association Marion Area | Marion, IN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $26,358 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fairmount Helping Hands | Fairmount, IN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Bureau Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fairmount Friends Meeting | Fairmount, IN | $19,461 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bridges to Health Inc | Marion, IN | $15,601 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gas City Fire & Rescue Squad | Gas City, IN | $14,922 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marion Legacy Courtyard Project | Indianapolis, IN | $14,030 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Westminster Preschool | Marion, IN | $13,860 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Family Service Society | Marion, IN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grant County Economic Growth Council Inc | Marion, IN | $12,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| I Have a Dream Preschool Academy | Marion, IN | $12,002 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cardinal Greenway Inc | Muncie, IN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Westminster Preschool Inc | Marion, IN | $11,990 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Afena Federal Credit Union | Marion, IN | $11,254 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marion Philharmonic Association Inc | Marion, IN | $10,840 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pleasant Township Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Sweetser, IN | $10,830 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $10,530 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| College Wesleyan Church | Marion, IN | $9,980 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A&m Childcarelearning Center | Marion, IN | $9,140 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upland Indiana Area Greenways Association Inc | Upland, IN | $9,107 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Servants at Work Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Grant County Emergency Management | Marion, IN | $8,402 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drug and Alcohol Resource Team (dart) | Marion, IN | $7,732 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marion Arts Commission Inc | Noblesville, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation Inc | Syracuse, IN | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holy Family Catholic Church | Gas City, IN | $6,814 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marion-Grant Co Humane Society Inc | Marion, IN | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hoosier Shakes Inc | Marion, IN | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Martin De Porres Center Inc | Marion, IN | $6,180 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sweetser United Methodist Church | Sweetser, IN | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nearspace Education Inc | Upland, IN | $5,560 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc | Huntertown, IN | $5,280 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Fairmount | Fairmount, IN | $5,056 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Grant County | Marion, IN | $5,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hope Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
30 of 60 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 33 | $787,118 | $12,000 |
| 2021 | 34 | $632,209 | $11,432 |
| 2022 | 29 | $670,752 | $14,922 |
| 2023 | 32 | $1,019,373 | $13,083 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,285 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Community Foundation of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 505 West 3RD Street, Marion, IN, 46952.
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