· Public charity
Bauer Family Resources Inc
Empower children and their families to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $120,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,258 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,258 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 · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEDOM MISSION | $50,000 |
| EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH | $20,000 |
| LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| HOPE SPRINGS | $15,000 |
| HEALTHY COMM CLINTON COUNTY | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Bauer Family Resources Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC5× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +48%
- HCHEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF CLINTON COUN5× · 2017–2023 · $98k · revenue +119%
- HSHOPE SPRINGS SAFE HOUSE INCORPORATE6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- DEDUKE ENERGY HELPING HANDSone grant, 2020 · $50k
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTEone grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue -26%
- CSCOMMUNITY SCHOOLS OF FRANKFORTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 reduce recidivism rate in female offenders in laporte county.
Safe place for women overcoming addiction and incarceration.
Counseling and treating drug and alcohol abuse clients.
Our mission as a thrift store is to provide quality merchandise at thrift store prices, while serving the community and anyone that enjoys a bargaqin. all proceeds from the giving store go to benefit s.a.f.e. house and towards ending…
To provide drug rehabilitation.
The organization helps to support local needy people by providing clothing and household items at a reduced or no cost, excess revenue is distributed to local charities.
To serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose-filled life.
Serves women, children, and families experiencing homelessness in central nc by providing a safe, comfortable & supportive environment for temporary housing to break the cycle of homelessness.
Joelton hope center operates as a thrift store that supports a food pantry.
To provide assistance to the needy in southearstern indiana in the form of food housing and utilities.
The ywca strengthens our community against violence and aggression. we provide immediate safety, lasting stability, independence, empowerment, and transformation for all. we are a source of hope.
Provide a safe home for women in a faith-based program and restoring them back to the community with deployable life skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Springs Safe House Incorporate and the most unlike its peers is Lafayette Parks Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF CLINTON COUN ↗
- Who funds HOPE SPRINGS SAFE HOUSE INCORPORATE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds SURF CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION 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: Indiana University Health Arnett Inc · North Central Health Services Inc · United Way of Greater Lafayette · Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The McAllister Foundation · Northwest Central Indiana Community Partnerships Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Bauer Family Resources 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.