· Community foundation
Cass County Community Foundation Inc
To assist donors in building an enduring source of charitable assets and to distribute grants from the appreciation to qualified charitable organizations or for charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $967,975 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,462,107 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $494,132 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EMMAUS MISSION CENTER | $255,000 |
| CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $66,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $64,000 |
| LOGANSPORT PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| CASS COUNTY FAMILY Y | $43,337 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $41,034 |
| ALL SAINTS PARISH | $38,895 |
| PROJECT MATTERS LLC | $35,375 |
| PIONEER YOUTH LEAGUE | $31,612 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC | $30,000 |
| VETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC DBA OPERATION CHARLIE BRAVO | $25,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA LIONS CLUB | $19,524 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,695 |
| LOGANSPORT-CASS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $16,086 |
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 (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- EMEMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC5× · 2018–2024 · $376k · revenue +103% · 35% of their budget
- CCCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +24% · 72% of their budget
- GVGALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC2× · 2023–2024 · $99k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PHPIONEER HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WRWEEKDAY RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $86k
- MCMUNICIPAL CIVIL CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $52k
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.
Our mission is to serve all people, working together to access needed food
To promote the economic and civic interests of individuals, community leaders, businesses and institutions in caswell county.
Casi's mission is to guide and empower families and communities to reach self-sufficiency and improved well-being, by addressing the root causes of poverty.
Fire protection.
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Housing/food - handicap
Grave openings, closings and perpetual care of crownland cemetery, noblesville, in
Our mission is to interact with all artists, civic, and art organizations - acting as an advocate for arts in all forms in the madison, in area, and to promote the area as an arts and creative destination.
To promote, encourage and foster the improvement and revitalization of the business area and to work toward a total professional and lifestyle rejuvenation of wells county, indiana.
The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
The mission of the columbus indiana architectural archives is to collect, conserve and promote the use of records that document the architectural engineering and arts associated with built environments of columbus, indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Cass County Inc and the most unlike its peers is State Theatre Preservation Society. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 80 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 EMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOGANSPORT PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Youth League ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cass 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.
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
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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