· Private foundation
Bierhaus Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA MILIATRY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RED SKELTON PERFORMANCE ARTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VINCENNES PET PORT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $600 |
| CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF VINCENNES INDIANA4× · 2020–2023 · $114k · revenue +88%
- KCKNOX COUNTY SALVATION ARMY4× · 2020–2023 · $60k
- KCKNOX COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $58k
Funded once
- VAVINCENNES AMINAL SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CCASAone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
We are a non-profit county museum, in Clark County Indiana.
Preserve history of starke county indiana
Volunteer fire department
Fraternal, patriotic, historic, and educational mission to preserve, strengthen, and assist Comrades, their Families, and the Community through activities at a common location.
Public charity
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF VINCENNES INDIANA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Shrine Club ↗
- Who funds BLUE JEANS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES PET PORT INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES PICKLEBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CRAIG FAMILY NATURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The McCormick Family Foundationinc · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bierhaus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bierhaus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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