· Private foundation
Centra 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURD SCHOLARSHIPS 37 | $92,500 |
| UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN | $53,192 |
| PAY IT FORWARD | $28,268 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY NEW ALBANY | $13,176 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE COPS AND KIDS JACKSON COUNTY | $11,000 |
| SCOTT COUNTY SHOP WITH THE SHERIFF | $10,705 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY | $10,525 |
| COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $10,272 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC | $10,000 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE | $9,500 |
| CENTER FOR LAY | $9,500 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF HOPE INC | $7,500 |
| SCOTT COUNTY CLEARINGHOUSE | $7,000 |
| SELLERSBURG COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY AND CLOTHES CLOSET | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 36 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- TPTurning Point Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +80%
- SSSANS SOUCI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +95%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- BSBURD SCHOLARSHIPS 36one grant, 2024 · $90k
- BSBURD SCHOLARSHIPS 34one grant, 2022 · $85k
- BSBURD SCHOLARSHIPS 32one grant, 2023 · $80k
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.
Provide resources for low income clients.
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…
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Provide low income and transitional housing to those in need in the aurora, in area.
To provide shelter and aid to the victims of domestic violence.
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
To provide a christ centered shelter to meet basic needs of housing, clothing, food, emotional and spirtitual needs.
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
Beacon, inc, (beacon) is a solutions-driven, anti-poverty nonprofit, dedicated to aiding and empowering people experiencing extreme poverty, especially hunger and homelessness. based in bloomington, in, beacon provides six core programs;…
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Ark Inc and the most unlike its peers is Olive Tree Resources 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 30 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 270 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds SANS SOUCI INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FIREMAN'S CHEER FUND ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Anchor House Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SU CASA COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ARK INC ↗
- Who funds Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA 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.
Open a dossier: First Financial Foundation · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Decatur County United Fund Inc
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 Centra 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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