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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.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$55kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$35kReligion$29kArts & Culture$27kYouth Development$22kHuman Services$19kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$706k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Southwestern Indiana$10,000
Naples Community Hospital$7,500
University of Evansville$5,000
Habitat for Humanity of Evansville$5,000
ARTIS Naples$2,500
Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana$2,500
Youth First Inc$2,500
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral$2,500
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral$2,500
Indiana University Law School$2,500
Youth First Inc$2,500
YWCA of Evansville$1,000
Deaconess Foundation$1,000
Collier Community Foundation$1,000
Evansville Rescue Mission$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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Avow Hospice Inc: $250 → 10%Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana: $3k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center In: $1k → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $500 → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $500 → 15%Evansville Christian Life Center: $500 → 15%YWCA of Evansville: $1k → 15%YWCA of Evansville Inc: $1k → 15%YWCA of Evansville Inc: $500 → 15%Aurora Inc: $1k → 15%Southwestern Indiana Regional Counc: $1k → 15%Aurora Inc: $500 → 15%Aurora Inc: $500 → 15%Aurora Inc: $500 → 15%Hollys House Inc: $100 → 15%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 27 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
31

Total granted

$210k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+9%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +7%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +126%
  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of Collier
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • DH
    DEACONESS HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +12%
  • SI
    SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +12%
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
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
2
Echo Community Health Care Inc

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…

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3
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
6
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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8
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
9
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
10
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana Incorp; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
21/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $27,500 · OtherBETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,750 · OtherEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INCTTT Christian Youth Ministries Inc: $6,000 · OtherTTT Christian Youth Ministries IncSALVATION ARMY: $3,500 · OtherSanta Clothes Club Inc: $3,200 · OtherEvansville Museum of Arts History: $3,200 · OtherDeaconess Foundation: $3,100 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC: $3,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherVanderburgh County CASA Inc: $4,500 · OtherDream Center Evansville: $3,500 · Other+28 more: $20,400 · Other+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $31,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVIL…Indiana University Foundation: $9,500 · EducationIndiana University Fou…DAN SCISM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EducationDAN SCISM SCHOLARSHIP …+1 more: $1,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR …United Caring Shelters Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterUnited Carin…ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $11,400 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAP…EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $8,000 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILL…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH FIRST: $9,250 · HealthNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthDEACONESS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $900 · HealthEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP: $2,500 · Human ServicesAURORA INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE: $1,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human Services
Other$87,650Education$48,500Philanthropy$31,000Housing & Shelter$26,000Arts & Culture$19,900Health$18,650Human Services$12,350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $11,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FIRST: $9,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAN SCISM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVanderburgh County CASA Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDream Center Evansville: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Clothes Club Inc: $3,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEACONESS HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER PATHWAYS MIDWEST: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-STATE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSN: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCARE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHolly's House Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 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 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 COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORP ↗
  • Who funds AURORA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-STATE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DEACONESS HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC DBA SWIRCA & MORE ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EVSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND 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.

Cecil a and Mabel Len…Koch Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Evansville Endowment …Braun Family Foundati…The Bower-Suhrheinric…Welborn Baptist Found…Holiday Management Fo…Baird Foundation IncJames R Duncan Trust …West Side Nut Club Inc
Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation IncIN53.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gerling Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerling Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Gerling Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gerling Family Foundation Inc 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 67 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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