2025 Change Maker – Coburn Place!!

Meet our 2025 Change Maker Coburn Place. Our $100,000 grant will fund The SHIELD Safety Project!

The SHIELD Safety Project at Coburn Place targets ongoing threats a survivor of domestic violence faces after fleeing, especially if she becomes homeless. Even after moving into our secure, rent-free housing, her safety may remain fragile. This project will provide a SHIELD—fast support addressing the urgent safety concerns a survivor faces: Stalking prevention, Home and vehicle security, Individual needs, Emergency relocation, Legal advocacy, and Defense training. Impact 100 funding can save lives and increase the safety of 70+ families, while strengthening Coburn Place’s existing services. Lasting safety is a shield that makes healing possible—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Coburn Place was one of the five Indianapolis-area nonprofits vying for this year’s Change Maker Grant. Each of the other finalists received an unrestricted Impact 100 Community Support Grant of $15,000. You can learn more about the other finalists by visiting their websites:

• Arts, Culture & Preservation: Big Car Collaborative: The Big Table: Culinary Arts and Community Wellbeing
• Education: Nine13 Sports: Using the Bicycle as the Ultimate STEM Education Tool
• Environment & Animal Welfare: IndyHumane: Pet Resource Center
• Family: Indiana Diaper Bank: Mobile Distribution to Meet Community Needs

We’ll keep you updated on Coburn Place and the impact they have on our community through our monthly newsletters and on our website, impact100indy.org

Proceeds from the annual dinner go to support Impact 100’s “Friend” fund, used to pay our operating costs and overhead expenses. The Friends funds ensure that 100% of each membership donation goes directly to the annual Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis grant pool. We accept donations to the Friend fund at any time. You can learn more by going to our Join or Donate page.

2025 Annual Celebration Sponsors

The following organizations and individuals made the 2025 Celebration possible. Join us in celebrating their involvement.

Background on the Event

Each year, Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis hosts an Annual Celebration event where current members vote after listening to seven-minute presentations from each finalist. The highlight of the event is the awarding of the Impact 100 Change Maker $100,000 high-impact grant to one nonprofit, while the other finalists receive smaller Community Support Grants, with the amounts varying based on annual donations.

It is the mission of Impact 100 to make at least one $100,000 transformational gift to the community where we live while empowering women to get to know nonprofits on a deeper-level and determining local needs. The annual meeting where the finalists were presented and the members voted to select that year’s grant recipient was originally limited to members and finalists only. After we started including potential members in the event, we realized that inviting members of the community allowed them to learn more about the needs in our community.

Although only current members can vote for the Change Maker, non-members attending the Annual Celebration get to share the enthusiasm of the members and finalists when the $100,000 Change Maker grant recipient is announced.

To date, Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis has allocated more than $3.1 million to nonprofits in the Indianapolis area. To learn about our granting history, please visit our Follow the Impact Page.

Membership in Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis is established through an individual donation of $1,000. Shared memberships, where two to four women pool their contributions for one vote, are also an option. Membership funds are exclusively dedicated to grant-making, ensuring that 100% of membership and other grant pool donations directly support the granting process each year, starting with a clean slate in the grant pool. More details about Membership can be found on our Join or Donate page.