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Adams County Community Foundation Inc
Building partnerships between donors and community to enrich and enhance the quality of life in adams county, indiana.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $482,202 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,147,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $665,077 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $97,934 |
| SOUTH ADAMS JRSR HIGH | $55,582 |
| ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $32,000 |
| ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $26,243 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $26,106 |
| DECATUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $25,300 |
| ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM | $22,547 |
| NORTH ADAMS SCHOOL | $19,401 |
| SWISS HERITAGE SOCIETY INC | $18,856 |
| SOUTH ADAMS TRAILS | $17,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $16,909 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $14,595 |
| CONNECT TO CAREERS INC | $10,765 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIMBERLOST | $10,706 |
| DECATUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $9,202 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADAMS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +145%
- DCDECATUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +25%
- DCDECATUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DCDECATUR CHURCH OF GODone grant, 2020 · $68k
- ACADAMS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue +159% · 39% of their budget
- ZLZION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.
Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.
To assist persons 60 years of age and older to remain active, independent and in their own homes.
Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.
Support the preservation of historical sites, promote historical activities while maintaining and developing the historical museum for the residents of Decatur County, Indiana.
To advance the mission and strategic objectives, through the development of resources and community awareness. this is accomplished through education, community relations, recruitment of quality health care professionals, advocacy,…
To champion the businesses of the Greater Adams County Region, giving them a voice by supporting innovation, forging connections with local government, and leading the community toward prosperity with our expertise as a private,…
To provide ambulance service to the towns of adams, cheshire and savoy.
The primary purpose of this organization is to care and maintain the Adams County Historical Society Musem in Brighton, Colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bi-County Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SWISS HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DECATUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Unfailing Love Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds South Adams Trails Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Limberlost State Historic Site Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Geneva Proud Inc ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Porter Family Foundation Inc · Dayton Foundation Depository · Adams County Memorial Hospital and Development Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adams County Community Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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