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Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k39 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Southern Indiana Foun | $80,500 |
| University of Evansville | $80,000 |
| University of Notre Dame | $50,000 |
| Reitz Memorial High School | $37,500 |
| Impact Evansville | $8,000 |
| Ascension St Vincent Evansville Fou | $7,800 |
| EVSC Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| YWCA of Evansville Inc | $3,100 |
| Joshua Academy | $2,400 |
| River City Pride Inc | $2,000 |
| Buffalo Trace Council BSA Inc | $1,500 |
| Marshall County Board of Education | $1,400 |
| St Marys Medical Center Auxiliary | $1,100 |
| District of Evansville of the Socie | $1,000 |
| Sycamore Land Trust | $1,000 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 22 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE3× · 2023–2025 · $231k · revenue +39%
- SMST MARY'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +39%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- EHECHO HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +109%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2020 · $17k
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities ofone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
We believe citywide flourishing happens when every person in the city flourishes, and we pursue the flourishing of every person by bringing people together to solve our citys (Evansville, IN) most pressing needs.
Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.
To help enhance southwestern indiana's culture, image, economy & quality of life through the attraction, promotion and development of family oriented and national sporting events.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The organization provides financial assistance and social services to low-income and under privileged families and children in evansville, indiana and the vanderburgh, posey and gibson county areas. the mission of the community action…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community
Educational
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 911 Gives Hope Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 92 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 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE ARC INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION D/B/A EVANSVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT EVANSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds EVSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS ACTING FOR JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
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: Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · Holiday Management 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 Bussing-Koch 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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