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Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc
The mission of the community foundation of madison & jefferson county is to build a strong, vibrant community by helping donors provide perpetual funding for the people, projects, and passions of jefferson county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MADISON AND JEFFERSON COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $767,813 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,267,229 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $499,416 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 $10k13 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $497k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MADISON | $112,713 |
| FRIENDS OF THE OHIO THEATRE | $70,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $42,975 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $42,975 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $36,700 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $35,400 |
| SOUTHEASTERN MEDICAL ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION JOHN PAUL CHAPTER | $27,000 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $26,000 |
| TOWN OF HANOVER | $25,000 |
| MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORP | $25,000 |
| MADISON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE | $22,900 |
| SPRINGDALE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $21,392 |
| MADISON-JEFFERSON CO HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $17,100 |
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, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF JEFFERSON CO8× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +76%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- ITIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $43k
- DVDEPUTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCone grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue -44%
- TOTOWN OF DUPONTone grant, 2023 · $36k
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.
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.
Attract businesses and industry to montgomery county, indiana.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
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.
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
Operation of a local history museum.
To encourage redevelopment in the urban portions of jeffersonville, indiana (the state-designated enterprise zone) in order to expand job opportunities and enhance residential property
To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.
The purpose of the organization is to operate the johnson county historical museum and educate the public concerning the history of johnson county, indiana.
The Jefferson County Development Corporation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote economic development in the area of Jefferson County, Illinois by maintaining resource information, such as workforce data, geographic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Valley Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson County 4-H Club. 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 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 86 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF JEFFERSON CO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OHIO THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds MADISON JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS' HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUB ↗
- Who funds NORTON - KING'S DAUGHTERS' HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH SHELTERINC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MADISON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Hoosiers Hills RCD Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT MADISON RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Hanover College ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DEPUTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Lifetime Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGDALE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HERITAGE CONSERVANCY 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: Arvin Sango Foundation · Bethany Legacy Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Dearborn Community Foundation Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · First Financial Foundation · Jefferson County United Way Inc · Birk Foundation · Community Foundation of Switzerland County Inc · Decatur County Community Foundation Inc · Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation · Lilly Endowment 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 Madison and Jefferson 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.
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