· Private foundation
Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF INDIANA | $56,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON CO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF FRANKLIN | $25,000 |
| TARA TREATMENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| CLARK PLEASANT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRANKLIN PARKS RECREATION DEPT | $15,500 |
| FRANKLIN SYMPHONIC COUNCIL | $12,500 |
| LEADERSHIP JOHNSON COUNTY | $10,704 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF JOHNSON CO I | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CO | $10,000 |
| INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- FCFranklin College of Indiana9× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +36%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF FRANKLIN6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +8%
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $109k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- JCJohnson Co Parks and Recreationone grant, 2019 · $15k
- FCFRANKLIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +36%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
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.
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
The purpose of the organization is to operate the johnson county historical museum and educate the public concerning the history of johnson county, indiana.
To positively impact the lives of those in our community by assessing needs, uniting partner organizations, agencies, and volunteers, and devoting our financial resources and efforts to the most critical needs.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
The jackson county education coalition is a county wide partnership of education, industry, and community leaders focused on aligning and integrating the county's learning system with economic growth and a high quality of life in jackson…
Through both traditional materials and emerging technologies, johnson city public library offers a mulititude of learning opportunities and entertainment choices in a dynamic center for the community.
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Aspire johnson county exists to promote business success and economic growth in johnson county and the communities that are contiguous thereto. its purposes are to: - encourage, foster, and stimulate the business success of our members; -…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnson County Autism Support Group 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 Franklin College of Indiana ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FRANKLIN ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK-PLEASANT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TARA TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Damar Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTREAM PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ASSIST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY AUTISM SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
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: Johnson County Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Conover Foundation Inc Agt · Thurston Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation 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.
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