· Community foundation
Brown County Community Foundation Inc
The brown county community foundation inspires charitable giving, brings people and resources together, and facilitates investment to meet the greatest needs of our county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $1,159,782 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,313,586 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $153,804 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN COUNTY ART GALLERY | $278,297 |
| BROWN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $162,326 |
| MOTHER'S CUPBOARD COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $90,357 |
| CAREER RESOURCE CENTER OF BROWN COUNTY | $71,820 |
| BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA | $70,910 |
| BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $41,087 |
| BROWN COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $36,800 |
| CENTERSTONE OF INDIANA | $36,079 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| ACCESS BROWN COUNTY | $27,322 |
| READY TO READ | $26,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,730 |
| FRUITDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC | $21,540 |
| WE CARE GANG INC | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF NASHVILLE | $19,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $777k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- BCBrown County Humane Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +109%
- BCBROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $692k · revenue +237% · 45% of their budget
- BCBROWN COUNTY YMCA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MLMAPLE LEAF MANAGEMENT GROUP INCone grant, 2019 · $129k
- LALIVE ADVENTUROUSLYone grant, 2024 · $96k
- SBSOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $57k
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.
In pursuit of artistic excellence, we engage our region's most talented artists in work that welcomes and develops audiences and opens hearts and minds.
History Education
Educate, present & promote the arts
To promote the Arts in the community by providing arts education opportunities (served 300+) through 2 organizations, hosted a Cinco de Mayo community event (8,000+ attendance), supported a county-wide art exhibition with multiple…
To provide financial support, services or other programs to promote the visual and performing arts within franklin county, indiana.
Educational
Brownwood Art Association is organized for charitable and educational purposes and to enrich the local community through visual art and activities promoting artistic and creative endeavors of all kinds.
Performing arts concerts and arts in education
Promote, enhance, educate the Arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown County Playhouse Management and the most unlike its peers is Keep Brown County Beautiful. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 97 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 Brown County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY ART GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY PLAYHOUSE MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT STATION 5 INC ↗
- Who funds CORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Constellation Stage & Screen Inc ↗
- Who funds READY TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRUITDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Lotus Education and Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BCT MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
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: The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Brown 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.