· Public charity
Fayette County Foundation Inc
To inspire a spirit of philanthropy in fayette county by enhancing the quality of life through impactful grantmaking, strategic endowment building, and community leadership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $206,866 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $192,692 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMAGINE PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| ALQUINA BLUE ARROWS PARK | $22,000 |
| INDIANA AUDUBON | $17,658 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $14,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,681 |
| HISTORIC ELMHURST | $13,664 |
| WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION INC | $10,286 |
| WHITEWATER VALLEY RAILROAD | $10,132 |
| BENTONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,899 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $8,750 |
| ST GABRIEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $7,656 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER FAYETTE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $7,000 |
| HISTORIC ELMHURST | $6,507 |
| INDIANA AUDUBON | $6,438 |
| HISTORIC CONNERSVILLE INC | $6,308 |
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 (FY21–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HCHISTORIC CONNERSVILLE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +17% · 56% of their budget
- WAWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +0%
- IAINDIANA AUDUBON SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- COCITY OF CONNERSVILLEone grant, 2020 · $54k
- FCFAYETTE COUNTY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue +464%
- MTMASONIC TEMPLE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -112% · 100% of their budget
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.
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Provide fire protection for local community
To provide firefighting services to residents of harrison township in bartholomew county, indiana.
Provide full fire protection and related emergency service primarily to the residents of eagleswood township.
Rural fire protection and safety services
To serve the community with fire safety and emergency assistance
To protect property and lives of our community.
Providing rural fire protection services for the village of Graysville, OH and surrounding community
Volunteer Fire Fighting
Provides services for individuals who are sixty years of age or older in white county, arkansas
Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx
Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interlocal Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whitewater Valley Railroad Association 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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 39 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 HISTORIC CONNERSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds WAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENTONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MASONIC TEMPLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER COLLEGE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTION CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU 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: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · 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 Fayette County 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.
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