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Fred E & Thelma V Boze Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$570kEducation$556kHuman Services$65kAnimals$36kScience & Tech$13kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION$35,000
ANDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$17,500
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$17,500
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$15,000
MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
PARAMOUNT THEATRE$10,000
GRUENEWALD HISTORIC HOUSE INC$10,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-16%

Still filing today

31%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PH
    PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +141%
  • MC
    MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +56%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AU
    ANDERSON UNIVERSITY - STUDENT RETENTION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • UF
    UNITED FAITH HOUSING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AU
    ANDERSON UNIVERSITY - CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Trustees of Hamilton College

A liberal arts college chartered in 1812, Hamilton College has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students, representing 50 states and 61 countries, and offers 59 areas of study. Hamilton also offers pre-professional/cooperative programs…

Education
3
Davidson College

Undergraduate liberal arts education

Education
4
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
5
Heidelberg University

Heidelberg university's mission and programs are firmly rooted in liberal arts with innovative coursework in sciences, global education, business and related graduate-level programs. quality education, services to students, a close…

Education
6
Wabash College

Wabash college is a liberal arts college for men that educates them to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.

Education
7
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Georgetown College

Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…

Education
11
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
12
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anderson Fine Arts Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANDERSON UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $125,000 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAANDERSON UNIVERSITY - BOZE ENDOWMENT: $86,748 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY - BOZE ENDOWMENTANDERSON UNIVERSITY - CYBER SECURITY SCHOLARSHIP: $70,000 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY - CYBER SECURITY SCHOLARSHIPANDERSON UNIVERSITY - NATIONAL WOMAN'S SECURITY SCHOLARSHIP: $70,000 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY - NATIONAL WOMAN'S SECURITY SCHOLARSHIPMADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65,000 · OtherMADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYANDERSON UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MUSIC - THEATER AND DANCE: $65,000 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MUSIC - THEATER AND DANCEANDERSON UNIVERSITY - NURSING SCHOLARSHIP: $55,000 · OtherANDERSON UNIVERSITY - NURSING SCHOLARSHIPANDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $45,000 · OtherMADISON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $36,000 · Other+22 more: $237,500 · Other+22 morePARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $170,500 · Arts & CulturePARAMOUNT HERITAGE …GRUENEWALD HISTORIC HOUSE INC: $50,500 · Arts & CultureGRUENEWALD HISTORIC…ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $125,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSI…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEHanover College: $20,050 · EducationHanover CollegeLeadership Academy of Madison County Inc: $14,532 · EducationLeadership Academ…Indiana University Foundation: $7,500 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $26,000 · Human Services
Other$855,248Arts & Culture$221,000Education$202,082Human Services$26,000

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 budgetPARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $170,500 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetGRUENEWALD HISTORIC HOUSE INC: $50,500 over 8y, 39% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHanover College: $20,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Academy of Madison County Inc: $14,532 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 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 PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GRUENEWALD HISTORIC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Hanover College ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Academy of Madison County Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FAITH HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON FINE ARTS 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.

Madison County Community Foundation IncIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison County Community Foundation Inc · Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fred E & Thelma V Boze Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred E & Thelma V Boze Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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