· Private foundation
Edwin C Tretter Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TELL CITY | $2,500 |
| NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER | $2,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $2,500 |
| PERRY COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $2,300 |
| STIR-N-UP HOPE INC | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| ANDERSON WOODS INC | $2,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $2,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $2,000 |
| DALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| TELL CITY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TYTri-County Young Mens Christian Association6× · 2018–2023 · $31k · revenue +268%
- AWANDERSON WOODS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +71%
- MHMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISHone grant, 2018 · $4k
- MHMEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SFST FERDINAND CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
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The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Holy Cross College is a Catholic, residential liberal arts college located in Notre Dame, Indiana and is part of a tri campus community that includes the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College. The College was founded in 1966 by…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spencer County Casa Inc. 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 72 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 57 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 Tri-County Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Tell City Inc ↗
- Who funds STIR-N-UP HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Franklin College of Indiana ↗
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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · The Kimball International - Habig Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Edwin C Tretter 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.