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· Public charity

Hamilton County Tourism Inc

To promote and encourage visitors to hamilton county, indiana

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$448k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.8MRecreation & Sports$980kScience & Tech$160kMembership Benefit$100kYouth Development$27kPublic Benefit$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $1,013,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,818,444 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $805,444 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $433k
  • $250k+1 grant · $448k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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
ROUNDTRIPPER FOUNDATION$10,000
CARMEL DAD'S CLUB$10,000
NOBLESVILLE CREATES$6,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $329k → 5%TOURISM TOMORROW INC: $235k → 16%THE SUPERLATIVE GROUP INC: $40k → 17%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $270k → 5%TOURISM TOMORROW INC: $100k → 16%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $113k → 5%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $75k → 5%NICKEL PLATE HERITAGE RAILROAD INC: $70k → 5%FRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS: $150k → 5%CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $100k → 5%HAMILTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100k → 5%FRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS: $40k → 5%HAMILTON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT: $25k → 5%CARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC: $15k → 5%CITY OF CARMEL: $12k → 5%THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: $11k → 5%THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 5%THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 5%THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 5%THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 5%THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 5%CARMEL DAD'S CLUB: $10k → 5%CITY OF CARMEL: $9k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $200k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $178k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $152k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $150k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $103k → 5%NICKEL PLATE ARTS INC: $100k → 5%CITY OF NOBLESVILLE: $9k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM INC: $133k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM INC: $130k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE: $24k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $448k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE: $12k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $402k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE: $12k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $160k → 5%CITY OF FISHERS: $10k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $150k → 5%CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM INC: $10k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $114k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $100k → 5%CITY OF WESTFIELD: $72k → 5%FISHERS PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%FISHERS PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%NOBLESVILLE YOUTH SPORTS: $10k → 5%NOBLESVILLE YOUTH SPORTS: $10k → 5%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -78% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$4.3M
$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-78%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NC
    Noblesville Creates
    7× · 2018–2024 · $889k · revenue +97% · 42% of their budget
  • NP
    Nickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $857k · revenue +196% · 31% of their budget
  • TT
    Tourism Tomorrow Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $335k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • WS
    WESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $440k
  • LL
    LOGICOURT LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $160k
  • CR
    CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Clark County Museum

We are a non-profit county museum, in Clark County Indiana.

Arts & Culture
2
Starke County Historical Society

Preserve history of starke county indiana

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3
North Manchester Historical Society

Operate a museum and put on programs about history.

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4
Huntington County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Sellersburg CelebratesInc

Charitable educational and civic purposes

Arts & Culture
6
Madison County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
7
Monon Civic Preservation Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Pickens County Tourism Association

Tourism and promotion

Arts & Culture
9
Carmel Art Association

Promote Local Artists

Arts & Culture
10
Indiana Peony Festival Inc

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…

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11
Historical and Genealogical Society

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…

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12
Indiana Transportation Museum Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for the Performing Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF WESTFIELD: $1,445,500 · OtherCITY OF WESTFIELDWESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSION: $440,000 · OtherWESTFIELD SPORTS COMMISSIONLOGICOURT LLC: $160,000 · OtherLOGICOURT LLCCARMEL REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $100,000 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Other+13 more: $333,608 · Other+13 moreNoblesville Creates: $889,491 · Arts & CultureNoblesville CreatesNickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc: $856,750 · Arts & CultureNickel Plate Heritage Railroad IncConner Prairie Museum Inc: $320,500 · Arts & CultureConner Prairie Museum Inc+3 more: $85,750 · Arts & CultureTourism Tomorrow Inc: $335,000 · Community ImprovementFISHERS PARKS AND RECREATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS INC: $190,000 · Recreation & SportsROBERTS CHAPEL CHURCH AND BURIAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Membership BenefitCARMEL DADS CLUB INC: $17,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,579,108Arts & Culture$2,152,491Community Improvement$385,000Recreation & Sports$190,000Membership Benefit$100,000Youth Development$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNoblesville Creates: $889,491 over 7y, 42% of budgetNickel Plate Heritage Railroad Inc: $856,750 over 5y, 31% of budgetTourism Tomorrow Inc: $335,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetConner Prairie Museum Inc: $320,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS INC: $190,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetROBERTS CHAPEL CHURCH AND BURIAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCARMEL DADS CLUB INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARMEL CHRISTKINDLMARKT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FOUNDATION INC: $10,750 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 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 ↗

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.

Hamilton County Commu…Lilly Endowment IncAllen Whitehill Clowe…Central Indiana Commu…Duke Energy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Hamilton County Community Foundation IncIN26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hamilton County Tourism Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hamilton County Tourism Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 29 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 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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