Funder Standing / Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

IN · EIN 311189885 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

39 of 110 organizations Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 34.5%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
34.5%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$5,647
Range $100 – $2,000,000
Repeat-dollar share
87.3%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation Inc$2,574,834
The Mind Trust$1,350,000
Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation$1,344,950
WFYI$1,065,400
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$1,019,900
Marian University$1,006,250
Newfields$1,000,000
Dove Recovery House for Women Inc$500,000
Aspire Indiana Health Incnew$500,000
MSD of Warren Township$327,500
MSD of Wayne Township$311,566
Victory College Prep$268,942
EdChoice$250,000
Franklin Township Community School Corporation$169,650
Indiana Latino Institute Inc$150,000
Indianapolis Public Schools$139,990
Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundationnew$129,278
MSD of Lawrence Township$120,000
Perry Township Schools$120,000
MSD of Pike Township$120,000
Herron Classical Schools - Herron and Riverside High Schools$100,514
Center for Leadership Development$100,000
MSD of Decatur Township$100,000
Indianapolis Urban League$100,000
Goodwill Foundation of Central and Southern Indiana$100,000

Showing the 25 largest of 110 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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