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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$884kReligion$630kArts & Culture$489kEducation$413kYouth Development$318kRecreation & Sports$269kHealth$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $1,111,284, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,564,508 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $453,224 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 $10k17 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $480k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $517k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOGANSPORT PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION$201,000
CAMP TECUMSEH$200,000
TWELVE MILE LIONS CLUB$58,000
CASS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION$57,850
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$42,946
ALL SAINTS PARISH$40,070
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY PTO$34,999
CASS COUNTY FAMILY Y$34,961
CASS COUNTY FIRE ASSOCIATION$30,000
LOGANSPORT FARMERS MARKET$30,000
VETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC DBA OPERATION CHARLIE BRAVO$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL$23,205
Individual grant recipient$22,125
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$20,135
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 (FY18–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC DBA OPERATION CHARLIE BRAVO: $25k → 15%VETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC DBA OPERATION CHARLIE BRAVO: $25k → 15%SERVANTS AT WORK: $8k → 16%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 35 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
45

Total granted

$3.7M
$958k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

31%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $556k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EM
    EMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $376k · revenue +103% · 35% of their budget
  • CC
    CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +24% · 72% of their budget
  • GV
    GALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $99k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • PH
    PIONEER HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WR
    WEEKDAY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $86k
  • MC
    MUNICIPAL CIVIL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $52k
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
Casstown Ohio Community Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Fire protection.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Martin County Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

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3
Hamilton County Historical Society

To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana

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4
Cass Lake Volunteer Rural Fire Association

To provide fire protection and training to the city of cass lake and the surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Crownland Cemetery Association

Grave openings, closings and perpetual care of crownland cemetery, noblesville, in

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6
Cass County Community Living Inc

Housing/food - handicap

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7
Community Action of Southern Indiana

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.

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8
Cass Lake Area Food Shelf

Our mission is to serve all people, working together to access needed food

Food & Nutrition
9
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Caswell County Chamber of Commerce

To promote the economic and civic interests of individuals, community leaders, businesses and institutions in caswell county.

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11
Wells County Revitalization Inc

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.

Community Improvement
12
Combined Community Services

Combined community services, inc. is an information and referral agency whose mission is to offer assistance to the poor, elderly, and unemployed of kosciusko county, indiana. giving support through information and referral, emergency…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cass County 4-H Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 101 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASS COUNTY FAMILY Y: $447,841 · OtherCASS COUNTY FAMILY YALL SAINTS CHURCH: $402,086 · OtherALL SAINTS CHURCHTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $293,893 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $263,427 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $226,255 · OtherCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCCAMP TECUMSEH: $200,000 · Other+82 more: $2,196,931 · Other+82 moreEMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC: $376,206 · ReligionLOGANSPORT PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $301,821 · Recreation & SportsPioneer Youth League: $31,612 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,570 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC: $87,741 · PhilanthropyJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $56,670 · PhilanthropyLions Clubs International Foundation: $37,791 · PhilanthropySTATE THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $109,466 · Arts & CultureINDIANA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CENTRAL INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLogan's Landing Association Inc: $16,931 · Community ImprovementCASS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $57,850 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MATTHEW MANGINE JR FOUNDATION INC: $7,998 · Youth Development
Other$4,030,433Religion$376,206Recreation & Sports$339,003Philanthropy$182,202Arts & Culture$119,466Community Improvement$66,931Youth Development$65,848

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 budgetEMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC: $376,206 over 5y, 35% of budgetLOGANSPORT PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $301,821 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $226,255 over 4y, 72% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CASS COUNTY INC: $115,927 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetSTATE THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $109,466 over 4y, 30% of budgetGALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC: $99,355 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC: $87,741 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCASS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $57,850 over 1y, 13% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $56,670 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $37,791 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $32,618 over 1y, 12% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Cass County IN: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLogan's Landing Association Inc: $16,931 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA: $10,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetServants at Work Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASS COUNTY DENTZEL CAROUSEL INC: $5,570 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROYAL CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $5,499 over 1y, 45% 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 EMMAUS MISSION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOGANSPORT PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CASS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN IMPACT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CASS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Pioneer Youth League ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Cass County Community 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 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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