· Community foundation
Franklin County Community Foundation Inc
To nurture and facilitate a spirit of giving and giving back for the betterment of franklin county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $800,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,049,193 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,401 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $555k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $240,000 |
| TOWN OF BROOKVILLE | $124,770 |
| MAIN STREET BROOKVILLE INC | $80,600 |
| WHITEWATER CANAL TRAIL | $56,380 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $53,320 |
| AVIAN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $49,570 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $28,230 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS | $20,000 |
| DREWERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $18,999 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES #1129 | $15,000 |
| MT CARMEL CEMETERY | $13,550 |
| METAMORA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $12,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA CLUB | $10,300 |
| BATESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THIRD ORDER ST FRANCIS | $9,410 |
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 (FY22–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +225% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- WCWHITEWATER CANAL TRAIL9× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue ×50 · 77% of their budget
- MSMAIN STREET BROOKVILLE MAIN STREET BROOKVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +225% · 44% of their budget
- MMMARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $251k · revenue +636%
Funded once
- RVRIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue +101%
- TPTHIRD PLACE NEWS DBA WHITEWATER PUBLICATIONSone grant, 2023 · $16k
- RARC ACTIVITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.
To promote and encourage interest in historic residential and commercial real property in johnson county, indiana.
To aid in the economic development of the downtown area of frankfort, indiana
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Volunteer fire department
The corporation was organized to carry out the objectives of the older americans act of 1965, to plan, supervise, and implement programs to assist the needs of senior citiznes in franklin county.
To provide fire protection and fire prevention services for the boundaries of new washington township in indiana
Volunteer fire department
To provide the citizens of flat rock township, located in northeastern bartholomew county, indiana fire protection.
Provided fire protection and rescue service to brown county,indiana.responded to emergency incidents and conducted public functions. assisted in training firefighters with local fire departments.
Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.
Our primary purpose is to extinguish and prevent fires as well as provide rescue service. we also assist local law enforcement agencies and we provide public safety in the service area to the general public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franklin County Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Main Street Brookville Main Street Brookville. 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 24 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 WHITEWATER CANAL TRAIL ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET BROOKVILLE MAIN STREET BROOKVILLE ↗
- Who funds MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds METAMORA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds DREWERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY 4H ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CO SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Whitewater Canal Byway Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD & GROWERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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: Brookville Foundation · Ripley County Community Foundation 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 Franklin County Community 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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