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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$278k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $1,159,782, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,313,586 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,804 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
  • $250k+1 grant · $278k
$12,584
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH CONNECTIONS: $10k → 8%AGING & COMMUNITY SERVICES OF S CENTRAL INDIANA: $10k → 13%YOUTH CONNECTIONS: $8k → 8%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $114k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $71k → 10%BROWN COUNTY ACCESS CO BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $65k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $56k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $55k → 10%ACCESS BROWN COUNTY: $50k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $50k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $40k → 10%ACCESS BROWN COUNTY: $31k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $29k → 10%ACCESS BROWN COUNTY: $27k → 10%BROWN COUNTY ACCESS: $25k → 10%BROWN COUNTY ACCESS CO BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $25k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $22k → 10%BROWN COUNTY ACCESS CO BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $17k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $15k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $14k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $14k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $11k → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $7k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $6k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BROWN COUNTY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 51 repeat orgs$789k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
39

Total granted

$7.4M
$712k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

47%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    Brown County Humane Society Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +109%
  • BC
    BROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $692k · revenue +237% · 45% of their budget
  • BC
    BROWN COUNTY YMCA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • ML
    MAPLE LEAF MANAGEMENT GROUP INC
    one grant, 2019 · $129k
  • LA
    LIVE ADVENTUROUSLY
    one grant, 2024 · $96k
  • SB
    SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Brown County Museum of History Inc

History Education

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2
Bloomington Theatre and Art Center

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Bloomington Classical Guitar Society
Arts & Culture
4
Franklin County Arts Council Inc

To provide financial support, services or other programs to promote the visual and performing arts within franklin county, indiana.

Arts & Culture
5
Arts Council of Brownwood

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Ballet Indiana

Educational

Arts & Culture
7
Bucks County Performing Arts Center

Performing arts concerts and arts in education

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8
Hancock County Arts Council

Promote, enhance, educate the Arts

Arts & Culture
9
Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Brownwood Art Association Inc

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.

Education
11
Community Arts Council of Blount County
Arts & Culture
12
Indiana Wind Symphony Inc

The presentation of artistic performances of significant music for band and wind ensemble to the entire Central Indiana Community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown County Playhouse Management; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN COUNTY SCHOOLS: $2,388,324 · OtherBROWN COUNTY SCHOOLSBROWN COUNTY ART GUILD INC: $321,908 · OtherBROWN COUNTY ART GUILD INCWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $169,900 · Other+67 more: $1,996,171 · Other+67 moreBROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION: $692,227 · Arts & CultureBROWN CO ART G…BROWN COUNTY PLAYHOUSE MANAGEMENT: $116,919 · Arts & CultureBROWN COUNTY P…Constellation Stage & Screen Inc: $44,974 · Arts & CultureBROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $37,786 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $179,830 · Arts & Culture+11 moreBROWN COUNTY YMCA INC: $608,433 · Human ServicesBROWN COUN…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $141,374 · Human ServicesNATIONAL C…+2 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesBrown County Humane Society Inc: $758,420 · AnimalsBrown Coun…BROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $177,428 · Public Safety & DisasterJACKSON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT STATION 5 INC: $101,110 · Public Safety & DisasterCORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $49,992 · Public Safety & DisasterFRUITDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $31,902 · Public Safety & DisasterMOTHERS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $256,217 · Food & NutritionEARLY MUSIC IN MOTION INC: $11,026 · Food & NutritionCENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC: $101,849 · Health
Other$4,876,303Arts & Culture$1,071,736Human Services$777,307Animals$758,420Public Safety & Disaster$360,432Food & Nutrition$267,243Health$101,849

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrown County Humane Society Inc: $758,420 over 9y, 14% of budgetBROWN CO ART GALLERY FOUNDATION: $692,227 over 6y, 45% of budgetBROWN COUNTY YMCA INC: $608,433 over 9y, 11% of budgetBROWN COUNTY ART GUILD INC: $321,908 over 7y, 38% of budgetMOTHERS CUPBOARD COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $256,217 over 8y, 51% of budgetBROWN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $177,428 over 6y, 49% of budgetBROWN COUNTY INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $153,861 over 5y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $141,374 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBROWN COUNTY PLAYHOUSE MANAGEMENT: $116,919 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetCENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC: $101,849 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT STATION 5 INC: $101,110 over 3y, 54% of budgetCORDRY-SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $49,992 over 1y, 22% of budgetConstellation Stage & Screen Inc: $44,974 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetREADY TO READ INC: $41,750 over 3y, 18% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $37,786 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFRUITDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $31,902 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLotus Education and Arts Foundation Inc: $31,741 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBCT MANAGEMENT INC: $31,116 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $29,394 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBloomington Playwrights Project Inc: $26,741 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRIVERSONG MUSIC: $24,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetINDIANA HERITAGE ARTS INC: $22,401 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetYOUTH CONNECTIONS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDo Something Inc: $17,250 over 2y, 23% of budgetHOPE FOR HEARTS FARM INC: $13,200 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,668 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetWINDFALL DANCERS INC: $11,650 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetEARLY MUSIC IN MOTION INC: $11,026 over 1y, 26% of budgetAging and Community Services of South Central Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Midwest Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $7,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAWNEE SUMMER THEATRE OF GREENE COUNTY INC: $6,807 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHanover College: $6,265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC: $5,059 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKEEP BROWN COUNTY BEAUTIFUL: $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Charit…Community Foundation …Brabson Library & Edu…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Lilly Endowment IncBaird Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brown County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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