· Public charity
Hamilton County Tourism Inc
To promote and encourage visitors to hamilton county, indiana
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,013,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,818,444 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $805,444 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $433k
- $250k+1 grant · $448k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF WESTFIELD | $448,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS | $150,000 |
| CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM INC | $132,500 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| NICKEL PLATE RAIL ROAD | $50,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION | $35,000 |
| CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC | $15,000 |
| ROUNDTRIPPER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARMEL DAD'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY TENIS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NOBLESVILLE YOUTH SPORTS | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN PROGRAM OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| WESTFIELD YOUTH SPORTS INC | $10,000 |
| NOBLESVILLE CREATES | $6,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +65% since the first grant, against -78% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
- NCNoblesville Creates7× · 2018–2024 · $889k · revenue +97% · 42% of their budget
- NPNickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $857k · revenue +196% · 31% of their budget
- TTTourism Tomorrow Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $335k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WSWESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSIONone grant, 2023 · $440k
- LLLOGICOURT LLCone grant, 2023 · $160k
- CRCARMEL REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
We are a non-profit county museum, in Clark County Indiana.
Preserve history of starke county indiana
Operate a museum and put on programs about history.
To collect, preserve, interpret and promote interest in the history of huntington county, indiana. the society presents its collection to the public through exhibitions, educational programs and publications.
Charitable educational and civic purposes
Public member organization working to improve civic properties in Monon, Indiana and to promote the rich history of the Town of Monon and White County, Indiana.
Tourism and promotion
Promote Local Artists
To inspire Indiana residents statewide to celebrate the peony, the state flower; to enhance Noblesville through peony beautification projects, peony gardens, and horticulture education; and to promote Hamilton County as a desired visitor…
The historical and genealogical society of indiana county seeks to promote a greater appreciation of the indiana community's rich heritage and a better understanding of life today. the society's purpose is to collect and preserve materials…
Railroads transformed america with ribbons of steel, linking communities and moving people and commodities from coast to coast. the indiana transportation museum preserves this legacy by immersing guests in moving experiences. it links…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for the Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roberts Chapel Church and Burial Association Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 Noblesville Creates ↗
- Who funds Nickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc ↗
- Who funds Tourism Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS CHAPEL CHURCH AND BURIAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS PARKS AND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARMEL DADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hamilton County Tourism 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.
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.