· Community foundation
Blackford County Community Foundation Inc
To seek and accept donations from private and public sources for the purposes of distributing the income for grants, scholarships and other charitable purposes and to enhance and promote philanthropy in blackford county, indiana.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of BLACKFORD 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 12 grants below total $197,495 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $312,980 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,485 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $32,793 |
| ARTS PLACE INC | $31,045 |
| BIGJAWS YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $24,500 |
| BLACKFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $24,193 |
| HARTFORD CITY PARKS DEPARTMENT | $16,470 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $15,000 |
| MONTPELIER YOUTH LEAGUE | $12,899 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BLACKFORD YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| BLACKFORD CO CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT | $7,185 |
| BLACKFORD CO ANIMAL SHELTER | $7,010 |
| MCMILLEN HEALTH | $6,400 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- IFINDIANA FARM BUREAU BLACKFORD COUNTY FARM BUREAU INC2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +15% · 71% of their budget
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
- PLPROJECT LEADERSHIP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $18k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1.6M
- GUGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $105k
- WCWOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue +261%
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.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
Skilled nursing care for the elderly.
Inspired by the compassion of the lord and savior, jesus christ, fellowship is a caring senior living community committed to enriching the physical and spiritual lives of those we serve.
As a catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.
To provide hospice and physician services to residents in the dallas metroplex and training to physicians and other care givers on providing these services. faith presbyterian providers is currently dormant.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We are committed to expressing christ's love by providing care that values every human life. st francis health services controls and operates farmington health services and is sponsored by the catholic diocese of st cloud. we are dedicated…
Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.
To provide housing to handicapped individuals
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
We, saint joseph regional medical center, inc. and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint joseph regional medical center-plymouth campus…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carey Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 ARTS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FARM BUREAU BLACKFORD COUNTY FARM BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAREY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACKFORD COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH ↗
- Who funds The Gibault Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD HOUSE OF PRAISE DALLAS ↗
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: Ball Brothers Foundation · Network for Good · 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 Blackford 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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