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Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc
The community foundation of wabash county serves the citizens of wabash county by implementing their charitable aspirations, making grants, investing and safeguarding charitable assets, providing information regarding charitable endeavors, and convening citizens and linking resources to address issues confronting our shared lives.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH 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 56 grants below total $3,753,596 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,121,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $367,790 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 $10k16 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $528k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 85 HOPE INC | $539,929 |
| WABASH FIRST UNITED METHODIST | $469,384 |
| WABASH COUNTY YMCA | $363,964 |
| LEARN MORE CENTER | $302,474 |
| PEABODY RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $204,226 |
| WABASH CITY SCHOOLS | $165,856 |
| MANCHESTER EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $164,503 |
| THE ESTELLE PEABODY MEMORIAL HOME | $160,000 |
| HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC | $143,284 |
| LAFONTAINE LEARNING COMMUNITY | $101,197 |
| BABE OF WABASH COUNTY | $99,353 |
| GROW WABASH COUNTY FOUNDATION | $98,795 |
| FIRST FRIENDS EARLY LEARNING | $81,540 |
| EEL RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE | $56,600 |
| WABASH FRIENDS CHURCH | $55,845 |
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, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +41% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- WCWABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +11%
- 8H85 HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +224%
- LMLEARN MORE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $618k · revenue +212% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- 8F8020 FOUNDATION TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $491k · revenue +21%
- HLHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +21%
- LCLAGRO CANAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $29k
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.
Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.
The mission of wabash marketplace, inc. is to foster community and economic development of the historic district in downtown wabash, indiana through promotion, design, economic vitality, and historic preservation.
To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life
The animal shelter's mission is to rescue and shelter domestic pets that are sick, injured/abused, stray, or owner relinquished in order to restore the animals to happy healthy lives through permanent adoption.
Providing opportunities for independent and interdependent living for individuals with disabilities.
To promote, encourage and foster the improvement and revitalization of the business area and to work toward a total professional and lifestyle rejuvenation of wells county, indiana.
Provide exposition for 4-h youth
Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.
To provide needed grants to wabash general hospital for the purpose of purchasing needed captial equipment and scholarship funding in healthcare related fields.
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabash County Lighthouse Missions Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Manchester Historical Society. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 94 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 WABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds 85 HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN MORE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 8020 FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PEABODY HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW WABASH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Manchester Comm Child Care Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ESTELLE PEABODY MEMORIAL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY LIGHTHOUSE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DANIELS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BABE OF WABASH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WELL IN WABASH COUNTY COA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MANCHESTER CIVIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds LAFONTAINE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Oaklawn Cemetery Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds North Manchester Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE HOUSING 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: Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc · Wabash County United Fund Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dekko Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable 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 Wabash 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.