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Jennings County Community Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to serve philanthropic and charitable needs in jennings county, indiana.

$473k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
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.

Community Improvement$462kArts & Culture$242kEmployment$240kEducation$234kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kYouth Development$63kHealth$57kReligion$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $326,832, the rows itemized in this filing. The $472,662 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $145,830 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $261k
$13,557
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JENNINGS COUNTY EDC$165,000
PARK THEATRE CIVIC CENTER$95,641
ST MARY'S SCHOOL$21,835
JENNINGS COUNTY 4-H$13,557
TOWN OF VERNON$9,628
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$7,265
HAYDEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM$7,110
PERCEPTIONS YOGA MINDFULNESS AND ART$6,796
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTH VERNON MAIN STREET: $8k → 12%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$1.3M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

30%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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 & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JC
    JENNINGS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMNT COMMISSION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $684k · revenue +52% · 41% of their budget
  • JC
    JENNINGS COUNTY FAIR BOARD INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +30%
  • JC
    JENNINGS COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CT
    CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue -25%
  • CO
    CITY OF NORTH VERNON
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
  • JC
    JENNINGS COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
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
St Johns Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc

Volunteer fire & rescue department

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Jefferson Fire & Rescue Department

Fight fires and save lives

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Enning Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Driftwood Twp Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection and emergency se

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Jefferson Township Pike Co Indiana Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighting and Rescue Services

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Lost Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Pendleton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Promote local business and tourism

Education
8
Bethany-Salem Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department for the bethany salem district of jasper ga

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Jefferson County Emergency Service Dist No 1 Inc

Fire fighting, safety and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Jordan-Kowaliga Vol Fire Dept Inc

Fire protection and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Fowler-Center Twp Vol Fire Dept

Fire protection for the town of fowler & center township

Public Safety & Disaster
12
New Mountain Volunteer Fire Departm

Rural fire prevention and control

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Vernon Main Street Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wayside Inn 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

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JENNINGS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMNT COMMISSION INC: $683,541 · OtherJENNINGS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMNT COMMISSION INCST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $159,543 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCHHAYDEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $110,345 · OtherHAYDEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INCJennings County Schools: $74,292 · OtherJennings County SchoolsFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $63,570 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH JENNINGS COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Other+9 more: $149,455 · Other+9 morePARK THEATRE CIVIC CENTRE INC: $95,641 · Arts & CulturePARK THEAT…JENNINGS COUNTY FAIR BOARD INC: $41,442 · Arts & CultureJENNINGS C…CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $43,508 · Public Safety & DisasterVERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $7,413 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH VERNON MAIN STREET INC: $7,775 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE INN INC: $5,283 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,290,746Arts & Culture$137,083Public Safety & Disaster$50,921Human Services$7,775Housing & Shelter$5,283

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJENNINGS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMNT COMMISSION INC: $683,541 over 8y, 41% of budgetPARK THEATRE CIVIC CENTRE INC: $95,641 over 1y, 37% of budgetJENNINGS COUNTY FAIR BOARD INC: $41,442 over 4y, 22% of budgetJENNINGS COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC: $22,467 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SEYMOUR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 JENNINGS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMNT COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK THEATRE CIVIC CENTRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds JENNINGS COUNTY FAIR BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds JENNINGS COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SEYMOUR INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VERNON MAIN STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds PERCEPTIONS YOGA MINDFULNESS AND ART INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE INN 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO2.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Jennings County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jennings County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 21 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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