· Public charity
Decatur County United Fund Inc
To support social services in decatur county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $440,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $461,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,416 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN | $78,000 |
| DECATUR COUNTY YMCA | $50,000 |
| CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER | $49,000 |
| GREENSBURG COMMUNITY BREAD OF LIFE | $44,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN IN | $42,000 |
| SPERANZA HOUSE | $38,397 |
| HUMAN SERVICES | $34,038 |
| CHAMPIONS OF YOUTH | $28,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE CLINIC | $24,000 |
| CATCH A RIDE | $19,000 |
| OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES | $13,745 |
| TURNING POINT | $12,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $8,800 |
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, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 21% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACOURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $402k · revenue +1%
- DSDECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $283k · revenue +110%
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- DCDECATUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $48k
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INone grant, 2019 · $35k
- COCHAMPIONS OF YOUTHone grant, 2019 · $32k
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 resources for low income clients.
Provide services in response to individual need
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
Working together, our mission is to enhance the quality of life in our communities, generation through generation to assist older adults, persons with disabilities, and persons that have needs, to access opportunities that will allow them…
Casa volunteers provide a voice for powerless children involved in judicial proceedings, advocate for the child's best interest, and strive to improve their circumstances and quality of life.
Supports independence by providing a comfortable, familiar environment for socialization, physical /mental exercise, creative exploration, nursing supervision, and community engagement.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
To provide services, assistance and activities to aid low-income persons and families.
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
To act as Guardian Ad Litem Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speranza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 54 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 COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Greensburg Community Bread of Life Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Champions of Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF DECATUR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Lifetime Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds New Directions of Decatur County Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF DECATUR COUN ↗
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: Decatur County Community Foundation Inc · First Financial Foundation · Centra Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Round Room Gives Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Decatur County United Fund 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.