· Private foundation
Arvin Sango Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON CO | $29,300 |
| MADISON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| CITY OF MADISON | $15,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY UNITED WAY | $12,525 |
| HEART HOUSE INC | $12,500 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H | $8,411 |
| MADISON MAINSTREET PROGRAM | $6,825 |
| JEFFERSON CO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,250 |
| MADISON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $6,000 |
| BREE'S BLESSINGS | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,725 |
| FREEDOM CENTER | $5,500 |
| SAGAMORE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| OUR HOSPICE OF JENNINGS COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- MRMADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT2× · 2021–2022 · $251k · revenue +79% · 30% of their budget
- MMMADISON MAIN STREET PROGRAM6× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +40%
- TKTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS' HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED4× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue ×631
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MADISON & Jone grant, 2019 · $43k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- HCHENRY CO LITTLE LEAGUEone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
To advance, encourage, and promote industrial, economic, and civic development in the community of madison, ohio.
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
Attract businesses and industry to montgomery county, indiana.
To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.
To provide nutritional services to the elderly residents of madison county, iowa and southern dallas county, iowa.
Enhancing the quality of life of the citizen's of madison county by attracting charitable gifts, seeking grants, making philanthropic grants in response to community needs and providing responsible financial stewardship and community…
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.
Promotion of area enconomic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Canaan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 116 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 MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MAIN STREET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS' HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEART HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITMADISON INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BREE'S BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH SHELTERINC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY VETERANS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MADISON INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc · Bethany Legacy Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · First Financial Foundation · The Yunker Foundation Inc · Repp Associates Foundation · Dearborn Community Foundation Inc · Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Arvin Sango Foundation 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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