· Community foundation
Dearborn Community Foundation Inc
The Dearborn Community Foundation, Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,132,091 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,446,432 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $314,341 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 $10k15 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $412k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $611k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dearborn County Government | $159,072 |
| Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation | $150,510 |
| City of Aurora | $100,405 |
| St Lawrence School | $75,532 |
| Youth Encouragement Services Inc | $75,214 |
| City of Greendale - Fire Department | $50,000 |
| St Elizabeth Foundation | $43,060 |
| North Dearborn Pantry Incorporated | $40,214 |
| Sunman Rural Fire Department Inc | $38,281 |
| LifeTime Resources Inc | $36,409 |
| Bright Volunteer Fire Co Inc | $32,522 |
| Aurora Lions Club | $30,000 |
| Ross Foundation Inc | $29,740 |
| South Dearborn Dollars For Scholars | $22,986 |
| Lawrenceburg Main Street Inc | $21,948 |
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 (FY20–24, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- RFROSS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $158k · revenue +168% · 62% of their budget
- YEYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +103%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- RVRIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +101%
- CMCOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue +3%
- LPLawrenceburg Public Library Services and Resourcesone grant, 2020 · $82k · revenue +20% · 37% of their budget
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.
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Provide volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.
The organization operates a fire department for the residents of laurel county, kentucky.
To provide fire and ambulance service to the bristol, indiana area
Volunteer fire department
To provide emergency services to the residents in german, armstrong and a portion of perry townships in southern indiana.
Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN
To provide fire protection for milan, indiana.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
To provide fire protection and rescue services to the residences and business in german township, bartholomew county, indiana
Voluntary fire department the organization is voluntary fire dept located in washington township in knox county, indiana
To provide fire protection and fire prevention services for the boundaries of new washington township in indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Indiana Economic Opportunity Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Lawrenceburg Greendale Soccer Club. 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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 ROSS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds Lifetime Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLFOREST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DEARBORN PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrenceburg Public Library Services and Resources ↗
- Who funds HOGAN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1 INC ↗
- Who funds GREENDALE EMERGENCY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN COUNTY CLEARING HOUSE FOR EMERGENCY AID INC ↗
- Who funds SUNMAN RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCEBURG MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN CO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAUGHERY VALLEY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 146 ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bright Fire & EMS Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCEBURG LIONS CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OAK HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Sunman Dearborn Youth Athletics Assn ↗
- Who funds WATER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
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: Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · First Financial Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Community Foundation of Switzerland County Inc · Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Inc · Interact for Health · Duke Energy Foundation · Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · Arvin Sango Foundation · Indiana Humanities Council 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 Dearborn Community Foundation 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.