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Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc

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Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc

Q: How much does Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc give?

Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc reported 45 itemized grants totaling $999,379, out of $1,363,125 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Q: What does Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Religion (15%), Youth Development (14%).

Q: Who are Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jefferson County Historical Society ($434k), First Christian Church ($365k), Christ Episcopal Church ($344k).

Q: Does Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc based?

Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc is based in IN.

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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$71k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$771kReligion$684kYouth Development$623kEducation$510kHuman Services$369kPublic Benefit$338kHealth$226kPublic Safety & Disaster$208kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 45 grants below total $999,379, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,363,125 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $363,746 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 $10k16 grants · $116k
$10k–50k26 grants · $689k
$50k–250k3 grants · $194k

$13,100

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC	$70,880
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$63,933
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$58,900
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH	$46,685
GIRLS INC OF JEFFERSON COUNTY	$43,833
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY	$43,400
PRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH	$41,600
RECOVERY CAFE MADISON	$40,000
SALVATION ARMY- MADISON INDIANA CITADEL	$39,400
NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$36,500
SOUTHWESTERN PRESCHOOL	$35,000
HISTORIC MADISON INC	$34,100
MADISON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO	$34,000
CANAAN EVENTS & ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC	$30,000
SPRINGDALE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION	$30,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $257k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.9M · 50 repeat orgs$739k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.9M

$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%

+6%

Still filing today

62%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

JC
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
GI
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF JEFFERSON CO
9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +76%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
9× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +16%

Funded once

IT
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2018 · $43k
DV
DEPUTY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue -44%
TO
TOWN OF DUPONT
one grant, 2023 · $36k

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.

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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Hebron Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana

Public Safety & Disaster

Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Co

To provide firefighting services to residents of harrison township in bartholomew county, indiana.

—

Madison County Sheltered Workshop Inc

To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.

Human Services

Madison County Historical Society

Arts & Culture

Milan Volunteer Fire Department in

To provide fire protection for milan, indiana.

—

John Hancock Community Development

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.

Community Improvement

Indiana West Advantage Inc

Attract businesses and industry to montgomery county, indiana.

Community Improvement

Martin County Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

—

Jefferson County Historical Society

Operation of a local history museum.

—

Fort Madison Economic Development Corp

Promotion of area enconomic development.

Community Improvement

Kendallville Restorations Inc

To promote and encourage interest in the history and heritage of the noble county, indiana area, and in particular in the built environment left by residents of the county.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Valley Opportunities Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 95 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/54

Grantees still filing

43/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,219,667Arts & Culture$854,022Youth Development$742,073Human Services$263,124International$192,410Health$177,325Education$150,449

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Arvin Sango FoundationIN45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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