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Evansville Endowment Fund Inc

To support charitable organizations through capital project grants that impact the city of evansville

$505k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$609kArts & Culture$547kHealth$261kCommunity Improvement$238kEducation$225kPhilanthropy$125kYouth Development$122kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $465k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Evansville Museum of Arts History Science$39,319
Southwestern Healthcare Inc$35,844
Carver Community Organization$35,800
St Vincent Early Learning Center Inc$35,700
Evansville Christian Life Center$35,000
Community Action Program of Evansville & Vanderburgh County Inc$32,000
YWCA of Evansville$31,000
Ozanam Family Shelter$30,853
Vanderburgh Humane Society Inc$30,000
Dream Center Evansville$27,115
Community One$25,000
SWIRCA & More$25,000
Habitat for Humanity of Evansville$23,000
Hydration Station$19,977
ARK Inc dba ARK Crisis Child Care Center$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Carver Community Organization: $42k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $36k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $35k → 15%Community Action Program of Evansville & Vanderburgh County Inc: $32k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $31k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $29k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $22k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $20k → 15%Memorial Community Development Corporation: $19k → 15%Carver Community Organization: $13k → 15%Memorial Community Development Corporation: $8k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $41k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $35k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $24k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $21k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $17k → 15%United Methodist Youth Home: $17k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $40k → 15%American Red Cross Southwest Indiana Chapter: $36k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $35k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $25k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $24k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $12k → 15%YWCA of Evansville IN Inc: $50k → 15%YWCA of Evansville: $35k → 15%YWCA of Evansville: $31k → 15%YWCA of Evansville IN Inc: $19k → 15%YMCA of Southwestern Indiana: $15k → 15%Aurora Inc: $37k → 15%Ozanam Family Shelter: $31k → 15%District of Evansville Society of St Vincent de Paul: $30k → 15%SWIRCA & More: $30k → 15%Ozanam Family Shelter: $26k → 15%Ozanam Family Shelter: $26k → 15%SWIRCA & More: $25k → 15%The Arc of Evansville: $23k → 15%Ozanam Family Shelter Corporation: $20k → 15%Ozanam Family Shelter Corporation: $20k → 15%SWIRCA: $20k → 15%District of Evansville Society of St Vincent de Paul: $20k → 15%District of Evansville Society of St Vincent de Paul: $17k → 15%The Arc Evansville: $14k → 15%The Arc of Evansville: $10k → 15%Aurora Inc: $10k → 15%St Vincent de Paul Society District of Evansville: $20k → 15%St Vincent de Paul Society District of Evansville: $20k → 15%Sycamore Services: $17k → 15%Sycamore Services: $16k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 35 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
19

Total granted

$3.3M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CC
    CARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $227k · revenue +43%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $203k · revenue +122%
  • LJ
    LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $179k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FS
    Franklin Street Events Association Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +22%
  • ER
    EVANSVILLE REGIONAL ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -77%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
2
For Evansville Inc

We believe citywide flourishing happens when every person in the city flourishes, and we pursue the flourishing of every person by bringing people together to solve our citys (Evansville, IN) most pressing needs.

Religion
3
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
4
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
5
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
6
Bridges Community Services Inc

To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.

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7
Arc of Vigo County Inc

The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…

Human Services
8
Evansville Christian School Inc

Evansville christian school exists to empower students to embrace a biblical worldview through spiritual and academic growth, servant leadership, and authentic relationships in the name of jesus christ.

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9
Echo Community Health Care Inc

We provide quality healthcare to all members of our community, including the uninsured, underinsured and homeless. Our comprehensive services are Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate. Our team of professionals is here to care for you and…

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10
Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc

To provide shelter for victims of domestic violence

Human Services
11
The Jackson County United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
12
The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley Inc

Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Program of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parenting Time Center 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 42 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr18%31%35–55yr20%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr18%37%35–55yr20%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
10%
86/900

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $226,971 · Human ServicesCARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INCUnited Methodist Youth Home Inc — $154,397 · Human ServicesUnited Methodist Youth Home IncEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $136,238 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INCYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $135,147 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INCOzanam Family Shelter Corp — $123,515 · Human ServicesOzanam Family Shelter CorpDISTRICT OF EVANSVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF — $112,800 · Human ServicesDISTRICT OF EVANSVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OFHolly's House Inc — $89,605 · Human ServicesHolly's House IncSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE — $75,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $74,038 · Human ServicesALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC — $72,500 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE ARC INC — $54,449 · Human Services+8 more — $224,856 · Human Services+8 moreLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $178,503 · Arts & CultureLOUIS J KOCH FA…EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE — $138,920 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE MUSE…THE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE REITZ HOME …EVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $79,200 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE AFRI…Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureST VINCENT EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $131,042 · OtherST VINCENT EARLY LEARNIN…SOUTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE INC — $65,844 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE …TRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $49,540 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANKFranklin Street Events Association Inc — $40,000 · OtherEVANSVILLE REGIONAL ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherJOSHUA ACADEMY INC — $95,490 · OtherJOSHUA ACADEMY INCARK CRISIS PREVENTION NURSERY INC — $50,000 · OtherARK CRISIS PREVENTION NU…Vanderburgh County CASA Inc — $46,244 · OtherVanderburgh County CASA …VANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · OtherEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Other+15 more — $242,644 · Other+15 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $203,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HU…COMMUNITY ONE INC — $135,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY ONE …United Caring Shelters Inc — $133,970 · Housing & ShelterUnited Caring …+1 more — $7,200 · Housing & ShelterEASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $143,784 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $60,300 · HealthDream Center Evansville — $76,603 · ReligionThe Potter's Wheel Inc — $39,721 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyEVSC FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,479,516Arts & Culture$521,623Other$815,804Housing & Shelter$479,170Health$204,084Religion$116,324Philanthropy$115,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $226,971 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $203,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $178,503 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetUnited Methodist Youth Home Inc — $154,397 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $143,784 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS HISTORY & SCIENCE — $138,920 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $136,238 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $135,147 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ONE INC — $135,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc — $133,970 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetST VINCENT EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $131,042 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOzanam Family Shelter Corp — $123,515 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDISTRICT OF EVANSVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF — $112,800 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $100,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJOSHUA ACADEMY INC — $95,490 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHolly's House Inc — $89,605 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $79,200 over 3y, 12% of budgetDream Center Evansville — $76,603 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $74,038 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC — $72,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE INC — $65,844 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $60,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEVANSVILLE ARC INC — $54,449 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARK CRISIS PREVENTION NURSERY INC — $50,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $49,540 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA INC — $46,814 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVanderburgh County CASA Inc — $46,244 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Potter's Wheel Inc — $39,721 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $36,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE REGIONAL ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSYCAMORE REHABILITATION SERVICES HENDRICKS COUNTY ARC INC — $32,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMEMORIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $26,384 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLAMPION CENTER INC — $25,858 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJD SHETH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWesselman Nature Society Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $24,954 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUncharted International Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARENTING TIME CENTER INC — $18,300 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJacobs Village Inc — $9,900 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC — $8,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDC USA INC — $7,200 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Cecil a and Mabel Len…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Welborn Baptist Found…Koch Foundation IncThe Bower-Suhrheinric…West Side Nut Club IncHoliday Management Fo…Gerling Family Founda…Braun Family Foundati…United Way of Southwe…James R Duncan Trust …
Community Foundation Alliance IncIN91.5× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · West Side Nut Club Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third

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 Evansville Endowment 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Evansville Endowment Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Evansville Endowment Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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