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Decatur County United Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Decatur County United Fund Inc

To support social services in decatur county.

$461k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$925kHuman Services$844kHealth$399kYouth Development$319kFood & Nutrition$315kRecreation & Sports$135kEducation$123kPublic Safety & Disaster$107kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $440,980, the rows itemized in this filing. The $461,396 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,416 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$34,038
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES: $14k → 13%OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES: $14k → 13%OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES: $13k → 13%OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES: $13k → 13%OUR HOSPICE OF DECATURSHELBY COUNTIES: $10k → 13%CATCH A RIDE: $19k → 11%CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $49k → 11%CATCH A RIDE: $18k → 11%CATCH A RIDE: $15k → 11%CATCH A RIDE: $8k → 11%CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $39k → 11%CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $37k → 11%CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $30k → 11%CAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $29k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
17

Total granted

$3.2M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+34%

Still filing today

38%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $402k · revenue +1%
  • DS
    DECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $283k · revenue +110%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • DC
    DECATUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $48k
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN IN
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • CO
    CHAMPIONS OF YOUTH
    one grant, 2019 · $32k
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.

1
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
2
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
3
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
4
Homebound Meals Inc

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.

—
5
Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc

Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.

—
6
Aging and Community Services of South Central Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Northeastern Indiana Casa Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Just Friends Inc

Supports independence by providing a comfortable, familiar environment for socialization, physical /mental exercise, creative exploration, nursing supervision, and community engagement.

Human Services
9
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
10
Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corp

To provide services, assistance and activities to aid low-income persons and families.

Human Services
11
Decatur Area Senior Citizens Council Inc

Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois

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12
Southeastern Indiana Voices for Children Inc

To act as Guardian Ad Litem Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INC: $283,339 · OtherDECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INCGreensburg Community Bread of Life Inc: $208,594 · OtherGreensburg Community Bread of Life IncADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $204,917 · OtherADVOCATES FOR CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $155,271 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUMAN SERVICES INC: $147,413 · OtherHUMAN SERVICES INCCAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER: $102,100 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF DECATUR COUNTY INC: $101,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $99,460 · OtherBREAD OF LIFE: $92,522 · OtherBIG BROTHERBIG SISTERS: $78,450 · OtherCOMMUMITY HEALTHCARE CLINIC: $77,781 · Other+32 more: $601,181 · Other+32 moreCOURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $401,940 · Civil RightsCOURT APPOINT…CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA: $209,600 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S A…Champions of Youth Inc: $165,047 · Youth DevelopmentChampions of…GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $16,100 · Youth DevelopmentCAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER INC: $183,603 · Human ServicesCAROUSEL P…OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $63,210 · Human ServicesOUR HOSPIC…Lifetime Resources Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesLifetime R…SPERANZA INC: $91,462 · HealthNew Directions of Decatur County Inc: $27,954 · HealthRIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC: $24,000 · EmploymentHOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF DECATUR COUN: $13,785 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,152,028Civil Rights$401,940Youth Development$390,747Human Services$306,813Health$119,416Employment$24,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,785

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $401,940 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetDECATUR SHELBY COUNTY YMCA INC: $283,339 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA: $209,600 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetGreensburg Community Bread of Life Inc: $208,594 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCAROUSEL PLAY & LEARN CENTER INC: $183,603 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetChampions of Youth Inc: $165,047 over 5y, 26% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES INC: $147,413 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF DECATUR COUNTY INC: $101,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetSPERANZA INC: $91,462 over 4y, 11% of budgetOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $63,210 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLifetime Resources Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Directions of Decatur County Inc: $27,954 over 1y, 11% of budgetRIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $16,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF DECATUR COUN: $13,785 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetGREENSBURG MEALS ON WHEELS: $8,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLEGAL AID DISTRICT ELEVEN INC: $6,185 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Decatur County Commun…First Financial Found…Centra Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationLilly Endowment IncUnited Way of Barthol…Round Room Gives IncCentral Indiana Commu…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Decatur County Community Foundation IncIN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Decatur County United Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Decatur County United Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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