How much did Hendricks County Community Foundation grant in FY2024?

Hendricks County Community Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,749,075, out of $2,034,059 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Hendricks County Community Foundation based?

Hendricks County Community Foundation is based in Avon, IN.

Hendricks County Community Foundation

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Avon, IN · Community foundation

Hendricks County Community Foundation

A broad-based community foundation funding the full local safety net — food, shelter, education, parks — and unusually willing to back capital projects.

$2.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$963k

Largest

01What you fund

0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2016–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.9MHuman Services$923kRecreation & Sports$848kEducation$722kPhilanthropy$715kArts & Culture$348kEnvironment$309kHealth$148kOther$0

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

In FY2022 the foundation rewrote its mission — shifting the subject from the donor ("realize their charitable goals") to the community ("understanding needs… empowering people"). A move from donor-services framing to community-leadership framing. Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $1,749,075 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,034,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $284,984 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.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16

22%

29%

49%

$203k

FY17

11%

49%

40%

$217k

FY18

33%

67%

$180k

FY19

16%

74%

$1.0M

FY20

44%

33%

20%

$1.2M

FY21

51%

40%

$839k

FY22

31%

17%

45%

$983k

FY23

10%

22%

69%

$1.1M

FY24

16%

23%

55%

$1.7M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 0% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024 that was 55%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHEPHERD'S PATHWAY	$962,873
HENDRICKS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY	$167,765
FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY	$99,500
PARKS FOUNDATION OF HENDRICKS	$70,488
BROWNSBURG FIRE TERRITORY	$61,741
HENDRICKS COLLEGE NETWORK	$43,432
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY	$27,500
CICOA AGING AND IN-HOME SOLUTIONS	$25,000
STRIDES TO SUCCESS	$24,000
SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN	$17,021
AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$13,426
PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL	$12,948
HENDRICKS REGIONAL HEALTH	$12,750
LEADERSHIP HENDRICKS COUNTY	$12,666
RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$11,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY16–24, $841k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

Adults without health insurance:reaches 9.5% in some neighborhoods (typically 6.7%)(CDC, modeled)
Food access:1 of 21 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

Hardest-hit ZIP codes — share of households below a basic cost of living

46118 38.4%46231 36%46149 33.3%46168 32.1%46103 29.8%46234 29.5%

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.

03Your edge

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You back the full breadth of your community — and the organisations you fund hold up better than the rest.

As a community foundation you fund inclusively across the local sector — established institutions and scrappy new efforts alike — which is the mission, not a hedge. Even so, the organisations you back are less fragile than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund.

The kind of organization you back

59% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 28% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. 45% of the ones you pick are financially resilient, against 34% of that field, and fewer show the warning signs below.

What they work on

Human Services24% vs 8%
Youth Development10% vs 1%
Philanthropy7% vs 3%
Animals7% vs 3%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Recreation & Sports, Religion, Education.

How they hold up

Run recurring deficits28% vs 38%
Burning through reserves10% vs 28%
Less than a month of cash0% vs 8%
Lean on a single income source24% vs 37%

you fund (29) you don’t (116)· share of each group

You fund (21)You don’t (52)

Median size (revenue)$834k$444k

Operating margin12%6%

Financially fragile38%77%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.1M · 44 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of your 47 multi-year relationships, 15 repeat the same amount every year (8% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+21%

Still filing today

70%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

SP
SHEPHERD'S PATHWAY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +453% · 99% of their budget
CY
CASCADE YOUTH LEAGUE INC
2× · 2019–2022 · $760k · revenue +233%
FP
FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC
5× · 2017–2024 · $369k · revenue ×41

Funded once

HENDRICKS LIVE INC
one grant, 2023 · $223k
HEAR INDIANA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue +26%
HC
HENDRICKS COUNTY TOURISM COMMISSION
one grant, 2023 · $42k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

Of 24 organizations, 1 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 24 of the 27 organizations you fund across these 4 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

SHEPHERD'S PATHWAY INC

Conviction

Deep, sustained bet on housing stability

Hendricks County Community Foundation has stood alongside Shepherd's Pathway through eight grants between 2016 and 2024, committing $1,918,905 — at peak, covering 125% of the organisation's budget — in sustained conviction that stable housing is foundational to community wellbeing. Through that partnership, Shepherd's Pathway has delivered individualized case management toward housing stability, connected participants to mental health and substance abuse treatment, offered job training and employment placement, and provided emergency food, clothing, and shelter to individuals in crisis. The organisation continues to file and serve, a testament to a relationship built on long-term commitment rather than short-term grants.

8× · 2017–2024

Funded

$1.9M

You committed

99%

Peak share of budget

+453%

Their revenue since

HEAR INDIANA INC

Funded once · graduated

One early bet, compounding returns

In 2020, Hendricks County Community Foundation made a single grant of $72,960 to Hear Indiana — representing 8% of their budget at the time — an early show of confidence in an organisation that has since grown its revenue by 26%. Hear Indiana has gone on to operate a Speech and Hearing Resource Center with Easter Seals Crossroads, administer a statewide hearing aid assistance program for youth ages 3 to 21, run a week-long residential camp for teenagers with hearing loss, and provide early intervention advocacy for families navigating school and medical systems. A one-time investment that found an organisation ready to grow.

When you stepped in · 2020

$972k

their revenue

$73k= 8% of it

once

Latest filing · 2024

$1.2M+26%

grown on its own, no further grants

2024 · what they did next

Hear Indiana operates the Speech and Hearing Resource Center in partnership with Easter Seals Crossroads, offering pediatric audiology services, listening and spoken language therapy, parent encouragement, and care coordination.

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Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

04Your field

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.

Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

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Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit

Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services

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

Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

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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

Healthlinc Incorporated

Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.

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Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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Chamber of Commerce of Harrison County

Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.

—

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

Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hendricks County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plainfield International Festival 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/74

the rest of the field

13%

1,134/8,732

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.

05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 81 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/53

Grantees still filing

42/53

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Housing & Shelter$1,859,173Other$1,966,450Human Services$903,185Recreation & Sports$839,097Education$721,597Philanthropy$716,722Arts & Culture$332,160

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.

10 internal · 3 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

Purdue Extension-Hendricks County coordinates the local food pantry coalition and provides nutrition education and classes to support the pantries. It’s one of 10 direct ties among 24 of your grantees, who also cluster around 3 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme19 shown · 14 ties

grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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explicit Joint program
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explicit Joint program
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explicit Funding
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explicit Affiliation

Anchors several grantees share

7 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 30Funding 13Affiliation 9Collaboration 3Coalition 2

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

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.

United Way of Central Indiana IncIN33.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Legacy Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family 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 Hendricks County Community Foundation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hendricks County Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hendricks County Community Foundation 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines