· Private foundation
Edwin C Tretter Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| ANDERSON WOODS INC | $2,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $2,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| STIR-N-UP HOPE INC | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $2,000 |
| DALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| TELL CITY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +83%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISHone grant, 2018 · $4k
- MHMEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SFST FERDINAND CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
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…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
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.
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPENCER COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin College of Indiana ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin C Tretter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin C Tretter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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