· Public charity
Indiana Historical Society
Since 1831, the INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY has been indiana's storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history.
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 4 grants below total $30,530 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,737 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,207 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUSEUM | $8,200 |
| FRIENDS OF THE KNOX CO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,811 |
| INDIANA ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION | $7,295 |
| GREENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,224 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CLCEDAR LAKE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +59% · 61% of their budget
- BCBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2021 · $115k · revenue +154%
- ACADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2017–2020 · $87k · revenue +30% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- MIMIAMI INDIANS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue -96% · 54% of their budget
- FMFIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INCone grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -5%
- RORILEY OLD HOME SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Preserve and advance knowledge of the history of the area
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Support the preservation of historical sites, promote historical activities while maintaining and developing the historical museum for the residents of Decatur County, Indiana.
Holt co history
Operation of museum
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…
The purpose of the organization is to operate the johnson county historical museum and educate the public concerning the history of johnson county, indiana.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vigo County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circus Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 84 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 CIRCUS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Daviess County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD MUSEUM IN ↗
- Who funds SWISS HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Goshen Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Switzerland County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds North Manchester Historical Society ↗
- Who funds EWM INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI INDIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM AND SURVIVE ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CULBERTSON MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds ROME COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Milan 54 Inc ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Union Literary Institute Preservation Society Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Black Firefighters Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER HEARTLAND TROLLEY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ELKHART CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE POLICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ELEUTHERIAN COLLEGE 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: Indiana Humanities Council Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Indiana Historical Society 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.