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Baumgardt Family Foundation Inc

Zionsville, IN · EIN 35-2120072. Reported 94 grants totalling $202,405 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$750median grant
$202,405granted, 2021-2024
52organizations funded
42%of grantees funded again the next year
$522,828assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Baumgardt Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $750. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $1,500; the smallest was $10 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
47 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
38 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rose Hulman Inst of TechnologyTerre Haute, IN$90,000442024
Christ Church Vero BeachVero Beach, FL$19,667222022
Battle Ground AcademyFranklin, TN$15,425222023
Greater Historic Traders PointZionsville, IN$9,800112024
The Learning Alliance FoundationVero Beach, FL$6,700222024
Mckee Botanical GardenVero Beach, FL$6,000222022
Purdue FoundationWest Lafayette, IN$6,000222023
Boys & Girls Club of Indian RiverVero Beach, FL$5,000332023
National Snaffle Bit AssociationGurnee, IL$4,100222022
Indiana Masonic Home FoundationFranklin, IN$3,703332023
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory SchoolIndianapolis, IN$3,500222022
Leukemia and Lymphoma SocietyIndianapolis, IN$3,000332023
Advent Evangelical Lutheran ChurchZionsville, IN$2,550222024
Alois SocietyChicago, IL$2,000222022
Alzheimer's AssociationIndianapolis, IN$2,000222022
Riverside TheatreVero Beach, FL$2,000222022
The Leadership InstituteIndianapolis, IN$2,000332023
Youth on CourseMonterey, CA$2,000112023
Union Lutheran Cemetery AssocZionsville, IN$1,700112023
Busch Wildlife SanctuaryJupiter, FL$1,500222022
Epilepsy Foundation IowaDes Moines, IA$1,500112024
Advent Lutheran ChurchZionsville, IN$1,000112021
Christ Church AcademyIndianapolis, IN$1,000112023
Flanner HouseIndianapolis, IN$1,000112024
Indiana Federation of College RepubIndianapolis, IN$1,000112021
The SourceAustin, TX$1,000112024
University of Georgia FoundationAthens, GA$1,000112022
Christ Church of Vero BeachVero Beach, FL$500112024
Eiteljorg MuseumIndianapolis, IN$500112021
Humane Society of Vero BeachVero Beach, FL$500222022
Indiana 4-H FoundationWest Lafayette, IN$500112022
National Ovarian Cancer CoalitionDallas, TX$500112021
Nsba FoundationWeatherford, TX$500112024
Guardian Angels Med Service DogsWilliston, FL$350222022
The Vna & Hospice FoundationVero Beach, FL$300112021
UnaFlorence, AL$300112023
Allisonville Christian ChurchIndianapolis, IN$250112022
Irondog K9 InternationalMcdonough, GA$250442024
Paws for Purple HeartsPenngrove, CA$250222022
Semper K9 Assistance DogsQuantico, VA$250442024
Disabled American VeteransGreenwood, IN$200442024
Project K9 HeroChattanooga, TN$200442024
Veterans of Foreign WarsIndianapolis, IN$150332023
Boone County Ride to LifeLebanon, IN$100112024
Disabled Veterns Nat'l FoundationLanham, MD$100222024
Faith and Freedom CoalitionDuluth, GA$100112021
Guardian Angels Medical Service DogWilliston, FL$100112024
Loving Paws Animal Center IncBattle Ground, IN$100112022
Paralyzed Vets of AmericaJeffersonville, IN$100222022
Zionsville Parks & RecreationZionsville, IN$100112021
National Assoc of Chiefs of PoliceTitusville, FL$50112021
National Police AssociationIndianapolis, IN$10112021

27 of 52 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 42%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Animal Welfare
9 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
6 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202132$52,087$750
202227$37,433$500
202319$33,285$1,000
202416$79,600$500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 64% of this one's giving went to organizations in Indiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Indiana
$130K
Florida
$43K
Tennessee
$16K
Illinois
$6K
California
$2K
Texas
$2K
Iowa
$2K
Georgia
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $750. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Indiana.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Baumgardt Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 7289 Hunt Club Drive, Zionsville, IN, 46077. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 35-2120072 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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