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· Public charity

Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc

Enhancing quality of life in the region and support economic development by advocating and promoting arts, arts education and arts organizations in Southwestern Indiana.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3M
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,933
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Evansville Museum of Arts & Science$15,933
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra$15,933
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CITY OF JASPER ARTS DEPT: $9k → 8%EVSC FOUNDATION: $74k → 15%PHANTOM REGIMENT INC: $10k → 15%EVSC Foundation: $72k → 15%EVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $50k → 15%PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $41k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $41k → 15%PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $39k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $37k → 15%Evansville Museum of Arts & Science: $36k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $35k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $33k → 15%PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $33k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $30k → 15%Evansville Museum of Arts & Science: $16k → 15%EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $10k → 15%EVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $8k → 15%THE REITZ HOME MUSEUM: $7k → 15%HAYNIES CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSOCIA: $7k → 15%HAYNIES CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSOCIA: $7k → 15%Haynie Corner Arts District: $7k → 15%PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR DANCE EDUC: $9k → 15%WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 15%EVANSVILLE BALLET THEATER: $6k → 15%UNIVERISTY OF EVANSVILLE: $25k → 15%Y&E: $15k → 15%UNIVERISTY OF EVANSVILLE: $10k → 15%ST VINCENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN &: $9k → 15%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE: $79k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $36k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $34k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $33k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $33k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $30k → 15%WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $14k → 15%WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $14k → 15%EVANSVILLE VAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10k → 15%Evansville Vand School Corp: $7k → 15%WEST TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EP
    EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +15%
  • EM
    EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +85%
  • EF
    EVSC FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $146k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
  • YI
    Y&E INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • WT
    WEST TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Evans Scholars Foundation - Indiana

Educational

Education
2
Evans School Foundation
Education
3
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
4
Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis Inc

To provide indianapolis citizens access to highly trained and skilled musicians, who perform chamber music ensemble concerts and who agree to educate elementary and high school students by teaching classes while in indianapolis

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5
Evans Scholars Foundation - Northern Illinois

Educational

Education
6
Evans City Public Library Association

Public library

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7
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.

Arts & Culture
8
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Inc

The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…

Arts & Culture
9
Ballet Metropolitan Inc

Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.

Arts & Culture
10
Evanston History Center

The evanston history center collects, preserves and shares evanston history to educate, inspire and enrich the people of evanston.

Arts & Culture
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
Old Evansville Historic Association Inc

To protect, enhance and perpetuate the distinctive and significant elements of the old historic district of evansville, indiana.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Center for Dance Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $250,846 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRALEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE: $237,907 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCEEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $57,500 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM+3 more: $26,627 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE-VANDERBURGH SCHOOL CORP: $190,304 · OtherEVANSVILLE-VANDERBURGH SCHOOL CORPPUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EVANSVILLE INC: $157,777 · OtherPUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EVANSVILLE INCCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE: $78,670 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLEWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $28,000 · OtherWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INCHAYNIES CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Other+4 more: $35,318 · Other+4 moreEVSC FOUNDATION INC: $146,297 · PhilanthropyEVSC FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $35,000 · EducationY&E INC: $15,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$572,880Other$511,069Philanthropy$146,297Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $250,846 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE: $237,907 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EVANSVILLE INC: $157,777 over 5y, 10% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC: $146,297 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $57,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPHANTOM REGIMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $9,334 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $7,293 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEVANSVILLE BALLET THEATRE INC: $6,105 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Alliance IncIN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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