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Dearborn Community Foundation Inc
The Dearborn Community Foundation, Inc. is a catalyst to connect people who care with causes that improve the quality of life in our community by advancing cultural, educational and social opportunities, while preserving our community's heritage and helping donors to create a permanent legacy in Dearborn County.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,128
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $205,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Dearborn Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public Safety & DisasterHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.1M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $750k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $960k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $880k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $937k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Education$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$691kHuman Services$452kRecreation & Sports$435kHealth$422kPhilanthropy$408kFood & Nutrition$242kCrime & Legal$157kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation | $798,283 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Aurora | $593,796 | 6 | n/a |
| Dearborn County Government | $523,362 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Greendale Fire Department | $390,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Lifetime Resources Inc | $238,069 | 5 | 2% |
| Ross Foundation Inc | $188,657 | 6 | 62% |
| St Lawrence Catholic Church Lawrenceburg Inc | $166,698 | 5 | n/a |
| Youth Encouragement Services Inc | $160,771 | 6 | 4% |
| International Association of Lions Clubs | $151,055 | 5 | 15% |
| Hillforest Historical Foundation Inc | $135,410 | 6 | 49% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation | $798,283 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Aurora | $593,796 | 6 | n/a |
| Dearborn County Government | $523,362 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Greendale Fire Department | $390,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Lifetime Resources Inc | $238,069 | 5 | 2% |
| Ross Foundation Inc | $188,657 | 6 | 62% |
| St Lawrence Catholic Church Lawrenceburg Inc | $166,698 | 5 | n/a |
| Youth Encouragement Services Inc | $160,771 | 6 | 4% |
| International Association of Lions Clubs | $151,055 | 5 | 15% |
| Hillforest Historical Foundation Inc | $135,410 | 6 | 49% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $119,867 | 6 | 0% |
| River Valley Resources Inc | $116,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Community Mental Health Center Inc | $103,753 | 1 | 0% |
| Miller-York Volunteer Fire Dept | $101,000 | 2 | 26% |
| North Dearborn Pantry Inc | $97,723 | 6 | 22% |
| Town of Dillsboro | $88,681 | 4 | n/a |
| Lawrenceburg Main Street Inc | $88,426 | 5 | 3% |
| Lawrenceburg Public Library Services and Resources | $82,114 | 1 | 37% |
| Hogan Township Volunteer Fire Company 1 Inc | $81,000 | 2 | 56% |
| Dearborn County Clearing House for Emergency Aid Inc | $80,302 | 6 | 13% |
| Greendale Emergency Rescue Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 36% |
| North Dearborn Community Park Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunman Rural Fire Department Inc | $71,180 | 3 | 16% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $67,855 | 2 | 0% |
| Dearborn Co Crisis Pregnancy Center | $55,202 | 6 | 5% |
| Heart House Inc | $54,745 | 5 | 6% |
| Laughery Valley Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 146 | $53,393 | 6 | 13% |
| St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc | $50,078 | 2 | 0% |
| St John Ev Lutheran Church | $49,627 | 3 | n/a |
| New Horizons Rehabilitation Inc | $47,844 | 6 | 0% |
| Archaeological Research Institute | $46,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Dearborn County Historical Society Inc | $42,060 | 2 | n/a |
| Dillsboro Summer Recreation Inc | $41,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lawrenceburg Pee Wee Football Club | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lawrenceburg Lions Club Incorporated | $40,000 | 5 | 60% |
| Sunman Dearborn Youth Athletics Assn | $38,020 | 5 | 8% |
| Beecher Presbyterian Church | $36,266 | 1 | n/a |
| St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Bright Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dearborn County Parks Foundation Inc | $33,832 | 6 | n/a |
| Bright Fire & EMS Inc | $32,522 | 1 | 2% |
| We Care Packages Inc | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lawrenceburg Babe Ruth Baseball | $32,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Manchester Township Volunteer Fire | $31,738 | 2 | 24% |
| Oak Heritage Conservancy Inc | $30,945 | 1 | 17% |
| Dearborn County Girls Softball Inc | $30,125 | 4 | n/a |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Safe Passage Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Water Rescue Inc | $25,717 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $25,559 | 3 | 7% |
| Moores Hill 1st Baptist Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lawrenceburg Greendale Soccer Club | $21,304 | 3 | 9% |
| Moores Hill Food Pantry Inc | $21,250 | 3 | n/a |
| South Dearborn Community School Corp | $20,671 | 1 | n/a |
| St John Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cancer Support Community - Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Southeastern Indiana Honor Guard | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Community Project Inc | $17,639 | 2 | n/a |
| Dearborn Adult Center Inc | $17,540 | 2 | 6% |
| Main Street Aurora Inc | $17,081 | 1 | 12% |
| Dillsboro Community Food Pantry | $15,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Moores Hillsparta Township Volunte | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| All Saints Catholic Church Dover Inc | $12,285 | 1 | n/a |
| Southeastern Indiana Economic Opportunity Corporation | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunman-Dearborn Community Schools | $11,092 | 1 | n/a |
| 4 Paws for Ability Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Legion Post 239 | $8,571 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Life | $7,795 | 1 | 0% |
| Aurora Baseball League | $7,203 | 1 | 12% |
| Dearborn County Retired Teachers Foundation Inc | $6,766 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Moores Hill | $6,623 | 1 | n/a |
| South Dearborn Pee Wee Football Corporation | $6,556 | 1 | n/a |
| Dearborn County Citizens Against Substance Abuse | $6,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $5,942 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Southeastern Indiana | $5,900 | 1 | 1% |
| East Central High School | $5,337 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Dearborn Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.
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.
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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
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.
About Dearborn Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Dearborn Community Foundation Inc give?
- Dearborn Community Foundation Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $1,238,044, out of $1,666,718 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dearborn Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Dearborn Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation ($798k), City of Aurora ($594k), Dearborn County Government ($523k).
- Does Dearborn Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dearborn Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Dearborn Community Foundation Inc based?
- Dearborn Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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