How much did BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

methodist churchgirlsmorristownfire protection

2019

usinghungerwellnesspositivegirlshealthfocus

2020

covidhopeleadershipfacilitiesgirlshealthintellectual

2021

covidnaturalcommunity'smealsusingfacingoper supp

2022

libraryshancock senioroper suppfacilitywaldronmentorshipadvocate

2023

therapytreeadafire deptvolunteer firesafetymeals

2024

villagesbuildingequipdomestic violenceartsministriesgirls

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $34k
$10k–50k36 grants · $714k
$50k–250k6 grants · $511k
$250k+3 grants · $1.7M

$18,475

Median grant

States reached

$62M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 67 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+47%

Still filing today

58%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther

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

MB
MORRISTOWN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +164% · 41% of their budget
SC
SHELBY CO PLAYERS
6× · 2017–2024 · $994k · revenue +1002% · 49% of their budget
EL
EARLY LEARNING SHELBY COUNTY
6× · 2019–2024 · $952k · revenue +604% · 64% of their budget

Funded once

BS
BETA SIGMA PHI - LAMBDA CHI
one grant, 2022 · $36k
ME
MORRISTOWN ELEMENTARY
one grant, 2023 · $35k
GB
GOLDEN BEAR BOOSTER CLUB
one grant, 2021 · $29k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Shelby County Senior Citizens

To provide services for the elderly and disabled.

Human Services

Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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Shelby County Ambulance Commission

Ambulance commission

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Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

To promote and assist the common interests of those engaged in the grain and feed business, the plants food and agricultural chemicals business, and other agricultural businesses

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Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services

Indiana Humanities Council Inc

To promote the public humanities.

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Shelby County Health Foundation

Promotion of health care in shelby county iowa

Health

Shelby County Fair Association

Conduct the annual county fair

Recreation & Sports

United Way of Scott County Indiana Inc

To empower scott county today through leadership and services to ensure a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy

Shelby County Food Pantry

Receive and distribute food and related items to help meet the nutritional needs of lower income area residents.

Human Services

Shelby County Cares

Provide awareness in the community of mental health needs and suicide rates. provide support, education, and counseling for those in need.

Health

Indiana Community Action

The indiana community action association (in-caa) works to strengthen the capacity of indiana's community action agencies to address community needs and poverty.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

6/110

the rest of the field

11%

898/8,007

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.

05the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/61

Grantees still filing

47/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,769,240Youth Development$2,817,967Health$1,741,256Human Services$1,473,486Arts & Culture$373,601Public Safety & Disaster$353,537Education$319,893

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.

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.

Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN38× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Hancock · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Shelby County United Fund Inc · First Bank Richmond Inc Community · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Johnson County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MORRISTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883064556 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MORRISTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 70% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Blue River Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Blue River Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blue River Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blue River Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph