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Herb Thyen Family Foundation

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.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$455kEducation$79kHealth$76kArts & Culture$42kYouth Development$27kHousing & Shelter$20kCrime & Legal$17kRecreation & Sports$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
ST MEINRAD SEMINARY$20,000
SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT$15,000
VINCENNES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL$5,000
ST JOSEPH CHURCH$5,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUND$5,000
DUBOIS COUNTY MUSEUM$5,000
TROTTER HOUSE$5,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$3,000
MENTORS FOR YOUTH$2,500
ST JOHN BOSCO YOUTH MIN$2,500
TRI STATE CATHOLIC RADIO$2,500
ANDERSON WOODS$2,500
CRISIS CONNECTION$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEXT STEP RECOVERY HOME: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+83%

Still filing today

24%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MH
    MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +2%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CRISIS CONNECTION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +125%
  • NS
    Next Step Recovery Home Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • JP
    JOHN PAUL THE GREAT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

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

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.

1
University of Sioux Falls

The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…

Education
2
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
3
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…

4
Calvary Hospital Inc

The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…

Health
5
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education
6
St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc

As a catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.

Health
7
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
8
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
9
The Legacy At St Josephs Home

Our mission is to offer an enriched lifestyle to seniors by providing 5-star quality care for those lives are entrusted to us.

10
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
11
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
12
Saint Augustine's University

The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anderson Woods 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT MEINRAD ARCH ABBEY — $230,000 · OtherSAINT MEINRAD ARCH ABBEYSISTERS OF ST BENEDICT — $134,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST BENEDICTST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH — $76,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCHHOLY TRINITY SCHOOL — $40,000 · Other+20 more — $142,250 · Other+20 moreDubois County Museum Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,000 · HealthXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationVINCENNES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTRI-STATE CATHOLIC RADIO INC — $5,000 · ReligionNext Step Recovery Home Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Food Bank — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$922,250Arts & Culture$41,000Health$37,000Education$36,000Religion$5,000Human Services$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDubois County Museum Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTION INC — $16,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetANDERSON WOODS INC — $10,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC — $6,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetVINCENNES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNext Step Recovery Home Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN HILLS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Dubois County Museum Inc
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CRISIS CONNECTION INC
  • Who funds ANDERSON WOODS INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
  • Who funds TRI-STATE CATHOLIC RADIO INC
  • Who funds VINCENNES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Next Step Recovery Home Inc
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN HILLS INC
  • Who funds Community Food Bank
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION

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.

Thomas W Seger and Cynthia J Seger Family Foundation IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas W Seger and Cynthia J Seger Family Foundation Inc · Dubois County Community Foundation · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Jjc Charitable Trust · Thomas L Habig Foundation Inc · C A Stenftenagel Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Herb Thyen Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    1report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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