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Gerling Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Southwestern Indiana | $10,000 |
| Naples Community Hospital | $7,500 |
| University of Evansville | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Evansville | $5,000 |
| Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral | $2,500 |
| Youth First Inc | $2,500 |
| Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral | $2,500 |
| ARTIS Naples | $2,500 |
| Youth First Inc | $2,500 |
| Indiana University Law School | $2,500 |
| Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana | $2,500 |
| Evansville Museum of Arts History | $1,000 |
| Dan Scism Scholarship Foundation | $1,000 |
| Deaconess Foundation | $1,000 |
| Evansville Rescue Mission | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +7%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +126%
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of Collierone grant, 2020 · $2k
- EFEVSC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- DHDEACONESS HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
We provide quality healthcare to all members of our community, including the uninsured, underinsured and homeless. Our comprehensive services are Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate. Our team of professionals is here to care for you and…
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana Incorp and the most unlike its peers is Wildcare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 15% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 67 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 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DAN SCISM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Caring Shelters Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderburgh County CASA Inc ↗
- Who funds Dream Center Evansville ↗
- Who funds Santa Clothes Club Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds EVSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEACONESS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE ↗
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: Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third · West Side Nut Club Inc
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 Gerling Family 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.
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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