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The Mind Trust Inc

Indianapolis, IN · EIN 20-4560286. Reported 208 grants totalling $42.7M to 115 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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:

1. What kind of organization it is. For The Mind Trust Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B052) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 115 distinct organizations, with 13% 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.
3. How much its list changes. 55% 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 $54,250. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $250,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $5,363,600. 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.

48 of 115 (42%) 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• United Way of Central Indiana $5,363,600 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA IN FURTHERING ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA'S EFFORT TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A 2023 SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM FOR INDIANAPOLIS CHARTER SCHOOL STUDENTS IN K-8TH GRADES TO ACCELERATE THEIR ACADEMIC PROGRESS IN ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATH THROUGH SUMMER BOOST.
• Ready Inc $1,185,000 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST READY, INC. IN FURTHERING ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST READY, INC. IN CREATING A CITY-WIDE VISION FOR EDUCATION SYSTEMS CHANGE TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION AND LIFE OUTCOMES FOR ROCHESTER, NY STUDENTS.
• Herron Classical Schools $1,150,000 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST THE HERRON CLASSICAL SCHOOLS IN FURTHERING ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST THE HERRON CLASSICAL SCHOOLS IN EXPANDING ITS NETWORK OF SCHOOLS IN INDIANAPOLIS AND PROVIDING HIGH DOSAGE TUTORING THROUGH BRIDGES TO READINESS.
• Paramount Schools of Excellence $1,112,000 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE IN FURTHERING ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE IN THEIR NETWORK GROWTH THROUGH LAUNCHING AN ALL-GIRLS STEM SCHOOL IN FALL 2024 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA.
• Teach for America $975,000 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST TEACH FOR AMERICA IN FURTHERING ITS CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST TEACH FOR AMERICA IN RECRUITING AND SUPPORTING TEACHERS FOR INDIANAPOLIS SCHOOLS.
• Matchbook Learning Schools of Indiana Inc $837,500 · 2023
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST THE MATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA, INC. IN FURTHERING ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). SPECIFICALLY, THE MIND TRUST SEEKS TO ASSIST MATCHBOOK LEARNING SCHOOLS OF INDIANA, INC. IN EXPANDING ITS NETWORK OF SCHOOLS IN INDIANAPOLIS AND INCREASING STUDENT ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY THROUGH HIGH DOSAGE TUTORING WITH IGNITE.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 84 of 115 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 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

77% 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

1. 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.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $54,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

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

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 1630 N Meridian St 450, Indianapolis, IN, 46202.

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