Indiana · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,584
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $278,297
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Brown County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $2.1M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $957k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $928k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $615k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $523k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $957k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $775k | 67% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$2.0MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MAnimals$794kEmployment$567kPublic Safety & Disaster$422kFood & Nutrition$286kHousing & Shelter$223kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County Schools | $2,388,324 | 9 | n/a |
| Brown County Humane Society Inc | $758,420 | 9 | 14% |
| Brown Co Art Gallery Foundation | $692,227 | 6 | 45% |
| Brown County YMCA Inc | $608,433 | 9 | 11% |
| Brown County Art Guild Inc | $321,908 | 7 | 38% |
| Mothers Cupboard Community Kitchen Inc | $256,217 | 8 | 51% |
| Brown County Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $177,428 | 6 | 49% |
| Womens Resource Center | $169,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Brown County Indiana Habitat for Humanity Inc | $153,861 | 5 | 12% |
| National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc | $141,374 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 79 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County Schools | $2,388,324 | 9 | n/a |
| Brown County Humane Society Inc | $758,420 | 9 | 14% |
| Brown Co Art Gallery Foundation | $692,227 | 6 | 45% |
| Brown County YMCA Inc | $608,433 | 9 | 11% |
| Brown County Art Guild Inc | $321,908 | 7 | 38% |
| Mothers Cupboard Community Kitchen Inc | $256,217 | 8 | 51% |
| Brown County Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $177,428 | 6 | 49% |
| Womens Resource Center | $169,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Brown County Indiana Habitat for Humanity Inc | $153,861 | 5 | 12% |
| National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc | $141,374 | 7 | 1% |
| Maple Leaf Management Group Inc | $129,316 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown County Playhouse Management | $116,919 | 7 | 8% |
| Centerstone of Indiana Inc | $101,849 | 4 | 0% |
| Jackson Township Fire Dept Station 5 Inc | $101,110 | 3 | 54% |
| Live Adventurously | $96,389 | 1 | n/a |
| Oak Ridge Cemetary | $93,899 | 7 | n/a |
| Jefferson Street Park Inc | $88,000 | 2 | n/a |
| We Care Gang Inc | $80,010 | 6 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Findlayhancock County | $69,063 | 3 | n/a |
| Brown County Enrichment for Teens | $62,658 | 4 | n/a |
| Cordry-Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department | $49,992 | 1 | 22% |
| Friends of Brown County State Park | $49,664 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $48,047 | 4 | n/a |
| Town of Nashville | $46,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Constellation Stage & Screen Inc | $44,974 | 3 | 2% |
| Ready to Read Inc | $41,750 | 3 | 18% |
| Peaceful Valley Hertiage Preservation Society Inc | $38,966 | 4 | n/a |
| Brown County Literacy Coalition | $37,787 | 3 | n/a |
| Brown County Historical Society | $37,786 | 5 | 3% |
| Brown County Public Library | $37,258 | 4 | n/a |
| Nashville United Methodist Church | $36,698 | 2 | n/a |
| Fruitdale Volunteer Fire Co Inc | $31,902 | 2 | 3% |
| Lotus Education and Arts Foundation Inc | $31,741 | 3 | 2% |
| Bct Management Inc | $31,116 | 2 | 2% |
| Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated | $29,394 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloomington Playwrights Project Inc | $26,741 | 3 | 3% |
| The Salvation Army | $26,419 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Equine Trail Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Riversong Music | $24,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Saint Paul Lutheran Churh | $24,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Indiana Heritage Arts Inc | $22,401 | 3 | 8% |
| Bloomington Creative Glass Center | $17,502 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Connections Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Do Something Inc | $17,250 | 2 | 23% |
| Brown County Weekend Backpacks | $16,552 | 2 | n/a |
| Rotary International | $16,263 | 1 | n/a |
| Gods Grace Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Brown County Public Library | $15,909 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Police Department | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope for Hearts Farm Inc | $13,200 | 1 | 12% |
| Bloomington Symphony Orchestra Inc | $11,668 | 2 | 8% |
| Windfall Dancers Inc | $11,650 | 2 | 7% |
| Quarryland Mens Chorus Inc | $11,554 | 2 | n/a |
| Early Music in Motion Inc | $11,026 | 1 | 26% |
| Brown County Community Closet | $10,045 | 1 | n/a |
| Aging and Community Services of South Central Indiana Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts Midwest Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Essential Opportunities Brown County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Pentecostals of Nashville | $9,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Arts Ceramics and Homesteading | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| From The Heart Productions | $7,340 | 1 | 0% |
| Early Music Associates Inc | $7,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown Countians for Quality Health Care Inc | $7,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Shawnee Summer Theatre of Greene County Inc | $6,807 | 1 | 4% |
| Shawnee Theatre of Greene City | $6,807 | 1 | n/a |
| Hanover College | $6,265 | 1 | 0% |
| Area 1 Horse & Pony Show | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown County Parks and Recreation | $5,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloomington Chamber Singers | $5,834 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville United Methodist Church | $5,830 | 1 | n/a |
| Hoosier Original Music Association Corporation | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sprunica Elementary Parent Teacher Organization | $5,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Stages Bloomington Company | $5,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana Forest Alliance Inc | $5,059 | 1 | 1% |
| Animal Protection Coalition Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Keep Brown County Beautiful | $5,000 | 1 | 39% |
| South Central Indiana Communications Support Group | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($479k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brown County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Smithville Charitable Foundation IncIN31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About Brown County Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Brown County Community Foundation Inc give?
- Brown County Community Foundation Inc reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,159,782, out of $1,313,586 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brown County Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Brown County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brown County Schools ($2.4M), Brown County Humane Society Inc ($758k), Brown Co Art Gallery Foundation ($692k).
- Does Brown County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brown County Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx.
- Where is Brown County Community Foundation Inc based?
- Brown County Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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