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Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found at a glance

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Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$25kHealth$22kEducation$21kRecreation & Sports$2kAnimals$2kCommunity Improvement$1k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
HAMILTON COUINTY SENIOR CITIZENS$3,000
HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI$2,500
HAMILTON CO SALVATION ARMY$2,500
HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%WHITEHAMILTON COUNTY SR CITIZENS: $2k → 15%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%WHITE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $500 → 15%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $5k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HAMILTON COUINTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $3k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $3k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HAMILTON MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $3k → 13%KARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HAMILTON CO SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 13%HAMILTON MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $3k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $2k → 13%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $2k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $2k → 13%CITY OF MCLEANSBORO - ANIMAL SHELTE: $2k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY 4H FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%HAMILTON CO ATHLETIC ASSN: $1k → 13%HAM CO SCHOOL BACK TO SCHOOL BASH: $1k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $1k → 13%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $1k → 13%SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $1k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOC: $1k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SALVATION ARY TREE OF LIGHTS: $1k → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $250 → 13%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 4 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$53k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

25%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HM
    HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI
    5× · 2018–2025 · $19k
  • HC
    HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12k

Funded once

  • HM
    HAMILTON MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • HM
    HAMILTON MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATI: $19,000 · OtherHAMILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATISALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTS: $12,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTSKARE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · OtherKARE FOUNDATIONHAMILTON COUINTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $3,000 · OtherHAMILTON COUINTY SENIOR CITIZENSHAMILTON MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherHAMILTON CO SALVATION ARMY: $2,500 · OtherHAMILTON MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+8 more: $7,825 · Other+8 moreHAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationHAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOU…HAMILTON COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$53,825Education$17,500Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetWhite County Senior Citizen: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds White County Senior Citizen ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found?

    Find your warmest path to Gary & Mary Little Charitable Found through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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