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Sia Foundation Inc

Lafayette, IN · EIN 35-2033162. Reported 78 grants totalling $685,476 to 71 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,592median grant
$685,476granted, 2021-2024
71organizations funded
47%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,415,337assets, 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. Sia 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 $1,592. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $9,960; the smallest was $45 and the largest $321,969. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
36 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
11 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
See Statement 10Lafayette, IN$321,969112021
Recovery CoalitionCrawfordsville, IN$15,500112024
Bravely Womens HealthWest Lafayette, IN$15,200212024
Crawford County High School DramaMarengo, IN$15,000112024
Mccutcheon High SchoolLafayette, IN$15,000112024
Songwriters Association of Mid North IndianaLafayette, IN$14,997112023
American Pianists AssociationIndianapolis, IN$14,993112024
South Newton High SchoolKentland, IN$14,925112024
Juga Bellmore Volunteer Fire DepartmentRockville, IN$14,125112024
Imagination StationLafayette, IN$13,940112024
Hillsboro Volunteer Fire DepartmentHillsboro, IN$12,420112024
Horizon HouseIndianapolis, IN$12,110112024
Sullivanmunce Cultural CenterZionsville, IN$12,080112024
Walton Community Volunteer Fire DepartmentWalton, IN$12,043112024
YWCA Greater LafayetteLafayette, IN$11,486112024
Red Barn Summer TheatreFrankfort, IN$11,143112024
Paul Phillippe Resource CenterFrankfort, IN$10,337112024
Isaiah 117 HouseElizabethton, TN$10,000112024
Multiplying Good IndianaNew York, NY$10,000112024
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile MuseumAuburn, IN$9,960112023
Bloomington Developmental Learning CenterBloomington, IN$9,896112023
Lafayette Urban MinistryLafayette, IN$9,607112024
Frontier Elementary SchoolBrookston, IN$9,190112024
Family Promise of Greater LafayetteLafayette, IN$9,000112024
Warren County Community Foundation - Youth CouncilWilliamsport, IN$8,662112022
Right Steps Child Development CentersLafayette, IN$8,125112024
Logansport Intermediate SchoolLogansport, IN$6,796112024
Heart and Soul ClinicWestfield, IN$6,000112024
The Arc of Greater Boone CountyLebanon, IN$5,500112024
Constellation Stage and ScreenBloomington, IN$5,490112024
Five Points Fire MuseumLafayette, IN$5,000112024
Town of DaytonDayton, IN$4,465112024
461 Boosters FirstWest Lafayette, IN$4,300112024
Jacobs WellGreenville, IN$4,127112024
Pike County Christian AssistancePetersburg, IN$3,949112024
Claude Mcneals Musical Theatre Training ProgramIndianapolis, IN$3,252112023
Brookiroquois Washington Public LibraryBrook, IN$2,748112024
Mental Health America Wabash Valley RegionLafayette, IN$2,500112022
Battle Ground Middle SchoolWest Lafayette, IN$1,886112024
Tippecanoe School CorporationLafayette, IN$1,299112024
Real ServicesSouth Bend, IN$1,061112024
The Farm at ProphetstownBattle Ground, IN$1,000112024
Casas for Kids FundWest Lafayette, IN$800112024
Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource CenterFrankfort, IN$300332024
Western Indiana Radio Emergency ServiceLafayette, IN$300332024
Almost Home Humane SocietyLafayette, IN$200112024
Brookiroquois Township Community FundBrook, IN$200222024
Brooks Place for Grieving Young PeopleIndianapolis, IN$200222024
Iladd IncZionsville, IN$200112024
Loving Paws Animal CenterBattle Ground, IN$200112024
Children of PromiseAnderson, IN$100112024
College Mentors for KidsIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Delphi Opera HouseDelphi, IN$100112024
Food Finders Food BankLafayette, IN$100112024
Hemophilia of IndianaIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Indiana FFA FoundationIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Kld Alzheimers FoundationRossville, IN$100112024
Lafayette Catholic School SystemLafayette, IN$100112024
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public MediaIndianapolis, IN$100112023
Noblesville SchoolsNoblesville, IN$100112024
Pawswap of Greater LafayetteLafayette, IN$100112024
Penrod SocietyIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Purdue Research FoundationWest Lafayette, IN$100112024
Riley Childrens FoundationIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Servants at WorkIndianapolis, IN$100112024
Woodhaven Rescue FarmLafayette, IN$100112024
Wyandotte Elementary PTOIndianapolis, IN$100112024
YMCA Camp TecumsehBrookston, IN$100112024
American Heart AssociationIndianapols, IN$50112024
B O Trail AssociationBrownsburg, IN$45112024

4 of 71 (6%) 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 47%, across 2 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.

Plus 97 grants to individuals totalling $482,299 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
11 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Education
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$321,969$321,969
20224$11,362$1,300
20239$38,605$100
202464$313,540$1,592

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. 97% 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
$665K
New York
$10K
Tennessee
$10K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc11 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater Lafayette10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,592. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Sia 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: Po Box 6470, Lafayette, IN, 47903. 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 35-2033162 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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