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Fall Creek Valley Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fall Creek Valley Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2023
35
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Animals$42kArts & Culture$24kRecreation & Sports$24kHuman Services$20kEducation$14kHealth$11kEmployment$8kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$482k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USA SHOOTING$4,000
INDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETY$4,000
CLOPON'S SAFE HAVEN RESCUE$2,000
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$2,000
MARY'S PLACE$1,500
HUGS CAFE$1,500
VENICE THEATER INC$1,000
CHILD RESCUE COOALITION$1,000
MAKE A WISH$1,000
SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT$1,000
SCHNELLVILLE FIREFIGHTING CORP$1,000
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTIN LEARNING INC$1,000
SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC$500
SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY$500
BEAVER ISLAND RURAL HEALTH CENTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD RESCUE COALITION: $1k → 11%CLEARBROOK: $750 → 14%CHILD RESCUE COALITION: $1k → 11%JULIAN CENTER: $1k → 16%CLEARBROOK: $500 → 14%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $2k → 9%CHILD RESCUE COALITION: $1k → 11%JULIAN CENTER: $1k → 16%CLEARBROOK: $500 → 14%CHILD RESCUE COOALITION: $1k → 11%CLEARBROOK: $500 → 14%CLEARBROOK: $500 → 14%JULIAN CENTER: $500 → 16%JAKE LAIRD MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 5%JAKE LAIRD MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 5%JULIAN CENTER: $500 → 16%JAKE LAIRD MEMORIAL FUND INC: $500 → 5%FOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 16%FNDN FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 41 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
20

Total granted

$152k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+10%

Still filing today

66%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MP
    Maris Place
    5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +80%
  • HC
    HUGS CAFE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +475%
  • CR
    CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SN
    SPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +54%
  • TT
    THE TWIG A MINISTRY OF BEAMS OF GRACE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • BH
    BUNKER HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals
2
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

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3
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc

HSSPV's mission is to be a leader in saving lives and serving communities by providing innovative care for animals, finding loving homes and reuniting families.

Animals
4
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter

Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…

Animals
5
Spay Neuter Services of Indiana

Pet friendly services of indiana saves animal lives and prevents suffering. we provide free and low-cost spay/neuter surgery certificates to animal shelters, rescue groups and limited-income families. our lifesaving services address the…

Animals
6
Starke County Humane Society Inc

Animal shelter

Animals
7
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
8
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc

UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.

Animals
9
Rural Animal Rescue Effort

Animal rescue and temporary housing for dogs and cats while waiting for adoptions. The shelter provides rescue services, temporary housing, medical care, transporting and adoption services.

Animals
10
Raskels Rescue
Animals
11
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc

To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.

Animals
12
Uplands Peak Sanctuary Inc

To rescue and rehabilitate abused and neglected farm animals educate the public about the benefits of a healthy vegan lifestyle promote sustainability through plant-based living and create meaningful connections between farm animals and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Helpings Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foster Fairy 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

39 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. 39 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USA Shooting Inc: $21,000 · OtherUSA Shooting IncINDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETY: $21,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETYVENICE THEATER INC: $9,000 · OtherVENICE THEATER INCHUGS CAFE INC: $7,750 · OtherHUGS CAFE INCCLOPONS SAVE HAVEN RESCUE: $4,000 · Other+33 more: $43,000 · Other+33 moreSATCHELS LAST RESORT: $3,000 · AnimalsSATCHELS LA…SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 · AnimalsSOUTH SUBUR…OPERATION KINDNESS: $2,250 · AnimalsOPERATION K…REDEMPTION RESCUE INC: $2,000 · AnimalsREDEMPTION …Ranch Hands Rescue: $2,000 · AnimalsRanch Hands…Robin's Nest of Indy Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsRobin's Nes…Indiana Wildlife Federation: $1,000 · AnimalsIndiana Wil…CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL AN…TEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · AnimalsTEXAS VETER…+1 more: $500 · AnimalsMaris Place: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Plac…DUBOIS COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL INC: $3,250 · Youth DevelopmentDUBOIS COU…CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCHILD RES…THE JULIAN CENTER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE JULIA…CLEARBROOK: $2,750 · Human ServicesCLEARBROO…Jake Laird Memorial Fund Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesJake Lair…GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGRACE SMI…FOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INDIANA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATIO…CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · HealthBeaver Island Rural Health Center: $2,500 · HealthSPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionDayspring Center Inc: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$105,750Animals$17,250Youth Development$15,250Human Services$14,250Health$6,000Food & Nutrition$5,500Housing & Shelter$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA Shooting Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $12,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHUGS CAFE INC: $7,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDayspring Center Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUBOIS COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSATCHELS LAST RESORT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEACE SCHOOL: $2,750 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCLEARBROOK: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN LEARNING: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOSTER FAIRY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBeaver Island Rural Health Center: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDEMPTION RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHNELLVILLE FIRE FIGHTING CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRobin's Nest of Indy Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJake Laird Memorial Fund Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPINNACLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana Wildlife Federation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF INDIANA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETI INSTITUTE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 USA Shooting Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds HUGS CAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dayspring Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SATCHELS LAST RESORT ↗
  • Who funds THE PEACE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER FAIRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Beaver Island Rural Health Center ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS ↗
  • Who funds REDEMPTION RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SCHNELLVILLE FIRE FIGHTING CORP ↗
  • Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Robin's Nest of Indy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jake Laird Memorial Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINNACLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗

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.

Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Brave Heart Found…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…Petsmart Charities IncCommunities Foundatio…Lilly Endowment IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Duke Energy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable TrustIN15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Fall Creek Valley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fall Creek Valley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report 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
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 62 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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