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Blue River Foundation Inc
The blue river foundation will be a catalyst for igniting action that improves the quality of life in shelby county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $2,937,411 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,351,596 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,414,185 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $714k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $511k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SHELBY | $798,837 |
| EARLY LEARNING SHELBY COUNTY | $543,863 |
| SHELBY CO PLAYERS | $335,839 |
| SCUFFY | $123,816 |
| THE INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE | $100,000 |
| SHELBY CO COUNCIL | $98,570 |
| HEALTHY SHELBY COUNTY | $76,521 |
| GIRLS INC | $59,275 |
| SHELBY SENIOR SERVICES INC | $53,007 |
| FOREST HILL CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $47,500 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $43,323 |
| MORRISTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $42,750 |
| MHP FOUNDATION | $33,848 |
| GROVER CENTER MUSEUM & HISTORICAL | $28,815 |
| MARIETTA VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $28,677 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 28 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHELBY COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +164% · 41% of their budget
- SCSHELBY COUNTY PLAYERS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $994k · revenue +905% · 49% of their budget
- ELEarly Learning Shelby County6× · 2019–2024 · $952k · revenue +604% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- BSBETA SIGMA PHI - LAMBDA CHIone grant, 2022 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $35k
- GBGOLDEN BEAR BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2021 · $29k
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.
Ambulance commission
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
Provide awareness in the community of mental health needs and suicide rates. provide support, education, and counseling for those in need.
Conduct the annual county fair
Providing an inclusive public private community partnership invested in growth for city of shelby ohio.
Receive and distribute food and related items to help meet the nutritional needs of lower income area residents.
Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
We focus on three primary needs in our community: investing in children and youth, promoting health and independence, and helping families in crisis.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To provide fire protection services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelby County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 112 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Early Learning Shelby County ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAJOR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SHELBYVILLE SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds JANE PAULEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST HILL CEMETERY ASSN ↗
- Who funds Shelby County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds FLAT ROCK CITIZENS COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY TOURISM & VISITORS' BUREAU ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA 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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Community Foundation of Hancock County Inc · First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Shelby County United Fund Inc · Johnson County Community Foundation Inc
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 Blue River 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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