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KOSCIUSKO 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$4.8M
Granted FY2024
68
Grants
2
Communities
$639k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of KOSCIUSKO 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
communications improvementboard directorsdirectors directedfacility improvementconditionalunconditionalrepairs
2019
security systemcardiac monitorstowerunconditionalconditionalrenovationsmarketing
2020
protective faceface masksunconditionalconditionalpreventionrenovationsunder
2021
safe harborharbor childchild advocacyequpmentcovid reliefgreenwaychurch
2022
caresplaygroundcovid reliefchurchfitnesspickleball courtstraining
2023
caresaed equipmentlost sparrowsplanningfeasibilitylakepickleball courts
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 68 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $752k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$24,007
Median grant
2
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
- STILLWATER HOSPICE$639,297
- JOE'S KIDS$476,890
- KOSCIUSKO COMMUNITY YMCA$366,353
- TOWN OF WINONA LAKE$343,143
- WARSAW HEALTH EXPENSES$231,072
- FELLOWSHIP MISSIONS$200,000
- TOWN OF PIERCETON$200,000
- CANCER CARE GRANTS$187,759
- TOWN OF CLAYPOOL$178,158
- LIVE WELL KOSCIUSKO$167,430
- GRACE COLLEGE & SEMINARY$159,978
- KOSIUSKO HEALTH SERVICES PAVILION$144,184
- AED EQUIPMENT GRANTS$114,583
- KOSCIUSKO COUNTY$113,402
- BAKER YOUTH CLUB$108,637
02The need
04
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 (FY21–24, $419k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 180 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
180 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
180
224
Total granted
$23M
$3.2M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+67%
+66%
Still filing today
12%
6%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $822k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth 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
- JKJOE'S KIDS4× · 2021–2024 · $684k · revenue +328%
- FMFELLOWSHIP MISSIONS4× · 2021–2024 · $553k · revenue +301%
- KCKOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- CGCONDITIONAL GRANT TURKEY CREEK FIRE TERRITORYone grant, 2019 · $330k
- TOTOWN OF LEESBURGone grant, 2023 · $200k
- TOTOWN OF SYRACUSEone grant, 2021 · $200k
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
Laporte County Leadership Inc
Leadership training
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2
Indiana Regional Medical Center
To serve the healthcare needs of every life we touch with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Health
3
Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc
Provide facilities for community recreational activities for youth, adults, and senior citizens, including basketball, hockey, youth summer and after school activities, softball, crafts, exercise and other activities
Recreation & Sports
4
85 Hope Inc
85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.
Health
5
Elkhart General Hospital Inc
We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.
Health
6
Indiana Teen Challenge Inc
Residential faith-based drug and alcohol recovery.
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7
Waycross Inc
Provides conference center and camping facilities for religious, educational and charitable groups in central and southern indiana.
Recreation & Sports
8
Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc
To improve the health of the individuals and communities we serve, through our resourcefulness, by fostering positive relationships, and our commitment to quality healthcare.
Health
9
Family & Children's Services Inc
Promote, develop and empower individuals, families, and communities to have healthy relationships and make positive life choices.
Human Services
10
Indiana County Ymca (5647)
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all
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11
New Life Ministries - Indiana Inc
To serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose-filled life.
Food & Nutrition
12
Community Care in Union County Inc
Provide child care and supporting family services to families in union county, indiana.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkview Hospital 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
7%
181/2,418
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
43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$22,711,312Health$2,266,948Housing & Shelter$552,500Philanthropy$524,513Human Services$418,539Youth Development$290,637Arts & Culture$221,279
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.
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.
Kosciusko County CommunityIN60.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Kosciusko County Community · The Dr Dane & Mary Louise Miller · Hand Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Kosciusko County Inc · Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Parkview Health System Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation · Zimmer Biomet Foundation Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · 1st Source Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of Greater
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 organisation KOSCIUSKO 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SYRACUSE WAWASEE PARK FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 351910250 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SYRACUSE WAWASEE PARK FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
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