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Community Foundation of Howard County
The mission of the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY is to connect people, resources and causes to produce a positive and sustainable change in the communities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 98 grants below total $3,454,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,678,708 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,224,225 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 $10k31 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $307k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION | $306,562 |
| CLINTON CO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $180,020 |
| CAMP TECUMSEH | $166,220 |
| KOKOMOHOWARD COUNTY ARTS LEAGUE | $159,750 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC | $159,525 |
| HOWARD COUNTY FOOD ACCESS ALLIANCE | $136,838 |
| CARROLL CO WABASH AND ERIE CANAL INC | $110,969 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $106,650 |
| CLINTON COUNTY ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RUSSIAVILLE PARK AND TREE BOARD | $100,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $91,305 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KOKOMO INC | $84,028 |
| BRIDGES OUTREACH | $76,611 |
| KIRKLIN MAIN STREET INC | $75,000 |
| KOKOMO PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $71,862 |
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, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
116 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 17 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $618k 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 - SYSTEMS OF CARE5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +700% · 63% of their budget
- KRKOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +88%
- YCYMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC7× · 2018–2024 · $832k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- CBCONSERVATIVE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $102k
- HCHOWARD CO 4-H EXHIBIT ASSOCATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SJSt Joseph Foundation of Kokomo Indiana Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +75%
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.
Identify, organize and facilitate programs and services for improving the quality of life of hope, indiana and the surrounding area.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
The mission of indiana hospital association, inc. is to provide leadership, representation, and services in the common best interests of its members as they promote the improvement of community health status.
Provide resources for low income clients.
To serve as advocates for the needs and interests of community-based mental health providers.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
We are a non-profit county museum, in Clark County Indiana.
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Howard Regional Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
119 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. 119 of the 196 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 TURNING POINT - SYSTEMS OF CARE ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF CLINTON COUN ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA WABASH VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE CANAL ↗
- Who funds CORE Community Center ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ↗
- Who funds Gilead House ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCIL 162 ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KOKOMO INDIANA ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BONA VISTA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds L&A Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOWARD REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NARROW GATE HORSE RANCH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEY MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY FOOD ACCESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kirklin Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO URBAN OUTREACH 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: The Arts Federation Inc · United Way of Howard County Inc · United Way of Greater Lafayette · Lilly Endowment Inc · North Central Health Services Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Arnett Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way for Clinton County Inc · Lincoln Legacy Foundation Inc · Greater Lafayette Community 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 Community Foundation of Howard County 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.