· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Hancock County Inc
The community foundation of hancock county, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 66 grants below total $1,063,847 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,715,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $652,082 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 $10k27 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $744k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANCOCK HEALTH FOUNDATION | $79,519 |
| THE LANDING | $58,048 |
| UNBOUND | $46,414 |
| SHIRLEY COMMUNITY VISIONARIES | $45,000 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $35,401 |
| GREENFIELD CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $33,575 |
| GREENFIELD PARKS DEPARTMENT | $30,005 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $29,592 |
| HANCOCK CO SENIOR SERVICES | $29,376 |
| THE ARC OF HANCOCK CO | $29,234 |
| BRADLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $28,525 |
| NEW PALESTINE UNITED METHODIST | $28,370 |
| CATHOLIC FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY OF | $26,522 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK | $25,572 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF HANCOCK | $24,350 |
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 (FY17–24, $893k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +190%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $269k · revenue +52%
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IBINDIANA BANDITS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +148% · 25% of their budget
- FAFORTVILLE ACTION INCone grant, 2021 · $26k
- COCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue -38%
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.
The corporations purpose is to encourage, support, and assist in activities and projects that further the social, cultural, and economic development, redevelopment, and rehabilitation in and around hancock county indiana.
To measureably improve people's lives in hancock county.
The mission of the hancock county health system foundation is to cultivate funding for hancock county health system for health care services, medical equipment, and/or community needs and programs.
To provide fire protection services.
Promoting mental health in hancock county to build better lives through education, support, and advocacy.
The hancock resource center works to stabilize families and strengthen the community. our mission is accomplished by addressing obstacles and barriers to housing and coordinating services for families in need.
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The humane society exists to educate the public on care and responsible treatment of animals; to humanely provide for and protect unwanted, lost and abused animals; and to create a quality environment for all animals through its policies…
To improve the County and community fair grounds and facilities.
The organization assists local individuals and families in need: physically, economically, emotionally, and spiritually. this is done without restriction to race, religious belief, national origin, gender, age, handicap, or political…
The organization assists charitable organizations in hancock county by providing affordable rental space for their administrative, management and operational activities in general support of the findlay-hancock county community foundation.
To secure for all mentally disabled individuals the benefirs of care, treatment and training appropriate for their disability and to encourage the development of integrated community and residential programs on their behalf
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 106 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 LEGACY PROPERTIES OF THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MT VERNON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FDN DBA NEW PALESTINE EDUCATION FDN ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH PARTNERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY CHILDRENS CHOIR LTD ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF GREATER HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NAMELESS CREEK YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES 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: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Blue River Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc · Henry County Community Foundation 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 Community Foundation of Hancock County 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.