· Private foundation
Boren Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $874k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $389k
- $250k+1 grant · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTBROOK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $327,500 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $100,000 |
| UPLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $65,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $60,000 |
| GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $60,000 |
| MILL TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $54,200 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| OUR TOWN UPLAND | $47,000 |
| PIERCE CHURCHGLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| VAN BUREN YOUTH SPORTS INC | $30,000 |
| GRANT COUNTY RESCUE MISSION INC | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST INDIANA | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,000 |
| UPLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $28,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRANT COUNTY | $27,600 |
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 (FY20–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $645k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRANT COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +21% · 29% of their budget
- ECEast Central Indiana Robotics Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +18% · 58% of their budget
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $108k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $58k
- FFFAIRMOUNT FRIENDS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MSMISS SCHOOL SPECIAL EDUCATION CO-OPone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
The grant county convention and visitors bureau is a community asset responsible for promoting grant county, indiana as an attractive travel destination and enhancing its public image as a dynamic place to live, work, and play, which…
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
The center promotes healthy families through family preservation services, nurturing parent group, supervised visitation, and community outreach and education.
To provide a vibrant, sustainable economy in grant county indiana that attracts and empowers business growth and innovation.
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.
The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Indianapolis christian school system strives to honor christ in partnership with parents and the christian community by educating and motivating students to excel in future academic pursuits, to develop a confident christian worldview, and…
Provides conference center and camping facilities for religious, educational and charitable groups in central and southern indiana.
The school's objective is to provide an excellent, christ-centered education, equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership, and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sos Save Our Stories. 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 30 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) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 164 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds NEARSPACE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds East Central Indiana Robotics Inc ↗
- Who funds GRANT COUNTY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AND STILL I RISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MARION-GRANT COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY SPECIAL NEEDS PROM INC ↗
- Who funds CAREY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENT 121 INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY BOYS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc · Atlas Foundry Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Fairmount Round Robins Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · United Way of Grant County Inc · Indiana Wesleyan University · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn
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 Boren 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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