· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +225% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Brookville Foundation · Ripley County Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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