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.

Where is Dearborn Community Foundation Inc based?

Dearborn Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.

Dearborn Community Foundation Inc

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· Community foundation

Dearborn Community Foundation Inc

The Dearborn Community Foundation, Inc.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$205k

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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$691kHuman Services$452kRecreation & Sports$435kHealth$422kPhilanthropy$408kFood & Nutrition$242kCrime & Legal$157kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 38 grants below total $1,238,044, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,666,718 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $428,674 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 $10k18 grants · $129k
$10k–50k12 grants · $279k
$50k–250k8 grants · $829k

$12,128

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
City of Greendale	$205,000
Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation	$150,966
LifeTime Housing Group Inc	$122,767
Miller York Volunteer Fire Department	$76,000
North Dearborn Community Park Inc	$75,000
City of Aurora	$73,629
Dearborn County Treasurer	$71,439
Town of Dillsboro	$54,328
St John Ev Lutheran Church and School	$32,690
St Lawrence School	$31,123
Aurora Lions Club	$31,055
Ross Foundation Inc	$30,766
Dearborn County Historical Society Inc	$30,547
South Dearborn Dollars For Scholars	$25,798
Hillforest Historical Foundation	$23,638

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $619k) 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. 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 44 repeat orgs$812k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$706k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+18%

Still filing today

64%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

LR
Lifetime Resources Inc
5× · 2020–2025 · $238k · revenue +45%
RF
ROSS FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +168% · 62% of their budget
YE
YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +103%

Funded once

CM
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue +3%
LP
Lawrenceburg Public Library Services and Resourcesgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $82k · revenue +137% · 37% of their budget
GE
GREENDALE EMERGENCY RESCUE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +215% · 36% of their budget

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.

Hebron Volunteer Fire Department Inc

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

Public Safety & Disaster

Laurel County Fire Department Inc

The organization operates a fire department for the residents of laurel county, kentucky.

Public Safety & Disaster

Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.

Public Safety & Disaster

Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department of Starke County Indiana

Volunteer fire department

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Marion Township Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide fire and emt service to marion township, decatur county, indiana

Public Safety & Disaster

Raleigh Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN

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Bristol Fire Department Corp

To provide fire and ambulance service to the bristol, indiana area

—

Milan Volunteer Fire Department in

To provide fire protection for milan, indiana.

—

Graysville & Community Vol Fire Dept

Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community

—

New Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

To provide fire protection and fire prevention services for the boundaries of new washington township in indiana

Public Safety & Disaster

New Martinsville Volunteer Fire Dept

To protect property and lives of our community.

Public Safety & Disaster

German Township Volunteer Fire Departmen

To provide emergency services to the residents in german, armstrong and a portion of perry townships in southern indiana.

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Indiana Economic Opportunity Corporation; 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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 75 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)

43/44

Grantees still filing

34/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,259,970Human Services$618,887Education$327,836Health$215,033Public Safety & Disaster$179,977Recreation & Sports$159,067Arts & Culture$135,410

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.

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home