Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis is a charitable women’s giving circle dedicated to awarding high impact grants to nonprofits in our community. We seek to fund critical needs, new ventures, and innovative ways to solve social problems in order to create a more civil and respectful climate.

Review our work through our Annual Giving Report
or the Interactive Impact Map showing where our grantees are located.

2025 is our 20th Anniversary of grant making!

But while we’re celebrating, we’re still getting down to business. Go to Key Dates for information on how you can be part of our 20th year as a member or a nonprofit!

Giving Tuesday, December 3

Support the Leaders of the Future Scholarship Program

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Established to inspire people to improve their local communities by giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, we hope you participate in #GivingTuesday by helping Impact 100 Give the Gift of Scholarship. All donations made on #GivingTuesday will go to our Leaders of the Future Scholarship Program. Here’s the current status of our Leaders of the Future Scholarship Program donations, and you’ll be able to see the impact of Giving Tuesday as the fund grows:

Join us for the Impact 100 Holiday Party on Giving Tuesday

Click here to register on Eventbrite

Learn how you can help transform our community in 2025 with Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis. This is your chance to join our giving circle, sign up for our grant review committees, and participate in and support our Leaders for the Future Scholarship program.  A guest speaker from Brooke’s Place will explain how they continue to make an impact in our community.  To support them, we will be collecting monetary and in-kind donations.  Monetary donations will be used to help provide pizza for our program night families. Their wish-list for in-kind donations is on the Eventbrite registration. Guests are welcome! Refreshments provided. Doors open at 5:30pm. The program begins at 6:15pm. We will wrap up by 7:30pm.

Applications for the Leaders of the Future Scholarships are Due December 6

Applications for the Leaders of the Future Program are accepted during the last quarter of each year for a membership the following year. 

Learn more about the LOF Program and download the application here!

You can be a Member!
Go to Our Membership Page to Learn How

Impact 100 has been an important part of the Indianapolis community since 2006, along with our annual goal of delivering more than $100,000 to nonprofits in the Greater Indianapolis community. Through our grants we have proven that collective giving works, and that a group of inspired women can accomplish much more than any one of us can alone. Visit our Membership Page for more information.

Announcing Our 2024 Change Maker

91 Place will not forget June 11, 2024, where they were named the Impact 100 2024 Change Maker!

91 Place was the Health & Wellness Focus Area Committee Finalist. The organization serves homeless youth, ages 16-24, by providing transitional housing for up to 2 years using a comprehensive wellness strategy. The Change Maker Grant will fund The Creating Permanency in Transitional Housing project. This project is an urgent response to the pending sale of their flagship home, which houses 4 youth and 2 house mentors. The home’s owners are offering the property to 91 Place at a price far below its appraised value. This opportunity creates equity, avoids a costly and disruptive move and eliminates the necessity of finding another suitable house when few are on the market.

Four other local nonprofits received unrestricted Community Support Grants of $11,000 each:

To find out more about each finalist organization, click on their name to go to their website. To learn more about their proposed project, go to our blog here.

Interested in supporting one of these projects? Contact us at impact100indy@gmail.com and we will be happy to make the introductions.

For an update on how the 2023 grants have been used by the nonprofits receiving them, read our blog here.

This year’s Annual Awards Celebration were held at The Heirloom Indianapolis, and the night was a huge success. Proceeds from the Wine and Spirits Pull and the Cookie Sales go to support Impact 100’s “Friend” fund, which helps us keep the ticket cost to the event down and supports operating costs and overhead expenses. These funds ensure that 100% of each membership donation goes directly to the annual Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis grant pool.

A big thank you to all their members and their guests for allowing us to share how powerful empowering women in our community can be with Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis. And a really big thank you to our sponsors, patrons, underwriters, and donors!

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Underwriters

2024 Annual Awards Celebration Patrons

Our patrons supported the event through cash or in-kind donations to our Cookie Auction, Baskets, and Wine and Spirits Pull.

Bev Middaugh

Chrissy Vasquez

Laura Dahlem