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Buchanan-Clements Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$39kRecreation & Sports$26kAnimals$15kCrime & Legal$6kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$6kEducation$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$267k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES$8,132
HAPPY HOLLOW CHILDRENS CAMP$3,766
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$3,000
CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION$1,910
DAILY NEEDS ASSISTANCE$510
02The need
03

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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 13%FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 13%FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $3k → 13%FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 13%FAMILY SERVICE OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $340 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78k · 7 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$78k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+115%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue +2%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $13k
  • WI
    WILDCARE INC
    2× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • PC
    PLAIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • CG
    CENTER GROVE WRESTLING CLUB INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PC
    PLAIN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

1
Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…

Human Services
2
Treehouse Wildlife Center Inc

Rehabilitation of wildlife. injured and abused wildlife are taken into the facility to nurse them back to their former condition. these animals are then acclamated back into their surroundings if their condition warrants the change.

Animals
3
Hoosier Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation service providing free service to the public. Also providing education programs and conservation intitiatives

Animals
4
Tri County Wildlife Care Inc

To improve the quality of life in our region through education and public awareness of our native wildlife and rehabilitating sick injured and orphaned wildlife and returning them to the wild.

Human Services
5
Centre Wildlife Care

Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.

Animals
6
Indiana County Humane Society

To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals

Animals
7
Steuben County Humane Society Inc

Welfare and care of animals

Animals
8
Kentucky Wildlife Center Inc

Rescue and rehabilitation of ky wildlife

Animals
9
Wildlife Works Inc

Rehabilitation and release of distressed wildlife and the promotion of responsible attitudes about the preservation of native species habitat and the environment

Animals
10
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

11
Dubois County Humane Society

To provide shelter and care for homeless and abandonded animals, to provide low cost pet spay/neuter certificates to residents of dubois county and surrounding counties, to promote shelter animals to find permanent homes, and to…

Animals
12
Natureworks Inc

Non-profit organization assists in the development and conservation of wildlife preserves, introduces wildlife into new habitats and provides education opportunities for adults and children on the values of sharing our homeland with…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildcare Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS — $12,511 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSIndividual grant recipient — $12,119 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLAIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT — $6,000 · OtherPLAIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIRFORCE — $5,879 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIRFORCECENTER GROVE WRESTLING CLUB INC — $5,250 · OtherCENTER GROVE WRESTLING CLUB INCPLAIN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $4,500 · OtherPLAIN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARYBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY 4H FAIR BUILDING FUND — $4,000 · OtherBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY 4H FAIR BUILDING FUNDCAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION — $1,910 · Other+4 more — $2,686 · OtherFAMILY SERVICES INC — $27,272 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INCNEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES — $8,132 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGESFamily Service of Bartholomew County Inc — $3,201 · Human ServicesFamily Service of Bartholomew Count…WILDCARE INC — $12,263 · AnimalsWILDCARE INCBartholomew County Humane Society Inc — $750 · AnimalsBartholomew …COAH CONSERVATION INC — $3,827 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC — $1,700 · EnvironmentSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $4,502 · HealthHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $3,766 · Recreation & SportsCENTER GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $900 · EducationDaily Needs Assistance Inc — $510 · Religion
Other$54,855Human Services$38,605Animals$13,013Environment$5,527Health$4,502Recreation & Sports$3,766Education$900Religion$510

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC — $27,272 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWILDCARE INC — $12,263 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $4,502 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAH CONSERVATION INC — $3,827 over 1y, 18% of budgetFamily Service of Bartholomew County Inc — $3,201 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS CENTER INC — $1,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $900 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds WILDCARE INC
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES
  • Who funds SAVE A WARRIOR INC
  • Who funds COAH CONSERVATION INC
  • Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC
  • Who funds Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS CENTER INC
  • Who funds CENTER GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc
  • Who funds Daily Needs Assistance Inc

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.

Clarence E Custer and Inez R CusterIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · McKesson Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Buchanan-Clements 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Buchanan-Clements Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Buchanan-Clements Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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