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Landmark Farm Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$635k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Housing & Shelter$642kEducation$639kPhilanthropy$283kFood & Nutrition$256kArts & Culture$99kYouth Development$98kHuman Services$92kCommunity Improvement$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION$250,000
VINCENNES UNIVERSITY$250,000
UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW$30,000
COLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR$25,000
BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FDN$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH$15,000
REACH COLUMBUS INC$12,000
COLUMBUS EAA CHAPTER 729$10,000
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$8,000
AGRIINSTITUTE$6,000
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL$5,000
IMAGINE LIBRARY OF BARTHOLOMEW$3,600
Individual grant recipient$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 (FY18–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%REINS TO RECOVERY: $10k → 11%REINS TO RECOVERY: $7k → 11%REINS TO RECOVERY: $5k → 11%REACH COLUMBUS INC: $12k → 13%BRIGHT START CHILD CARE MINISTRY: $5k → 13%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$704k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against +94% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$1.3M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+124%
+94%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BC
    BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $249k · revenue +23%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +124% · 51% of their budget
  • KC
    KIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • HF
    HERITAGE FUND COMMUNITY FDN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IT
    IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CC
    COLUMBUS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +618%

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
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.

2
Foundation for Youth of Bartholomew County Inc

Our mission is to inspire and enable youth ensuring they have the resources and opportunities to grow, learn, and thrive.

Youth Development
3
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.

Arts & Culture
4
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
5
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
6
Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.

7
Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Chamber of commerce foundation

Philanthropy
8
Iba Foundation Inc

To provide education programs to members of the banking industry, those aspiring to develop their capabilities in the business of banking, and instructing the public regarding banking.

Education
9
Columbus Youth Foundation

The columbus youth foundation supports recreational programs for underprivileged youth in columbus.

10
Butler Community College Foundation

The foundation will nurture relationships that will create opportunities for stakeholders to make a difference in the lives of butler students.

Education
11
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
12
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidscommons Columbus Community Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Columbus North Hs Band Booster Asso. 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

15 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. 15 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FOR — $642,444 · OtherCOLUMBUS REGIONAL SHELTER FORVINCENNES UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · OtherVINCENNES UNIVERSITYUNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW — $168,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEWHERITAGE FUND COMMUNITY FDN — $50,000 · Other+19 more — $210,009 · Other+19 moreNational FFA Foundation Inc — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational FFA Foun…FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR YO…BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $249,331 · EducationBARTHOLOMEW C…+2 more — $12,250 · EducationHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC — $115,000 · PhilanthropyKIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $65,000 · Arts & CultureBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $19,000 · Arts & CultureATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM — $7,500 · Arts & CultureREINS TO RECOVERY INC — $21,600 · Human ServicesREACH COLUMBUS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT START CHILD CARE MINISTRY — $5,000 · Human ServicesAGRIINSTITUTE INC — $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,320,453Youth Development$335,000Education$261,581Philanthropy$115,000Arts & Culture$91,500Human Services$38,600Food & Nutrition$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNational FFA Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $249,331 over 8y, 12% of budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC — $85,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetKIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $65,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetREINS TO RECOVERY INC — $21,600 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $19,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetREACH COLUMBUS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM — $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS NORTH HS BAND BOOSTER ASSO — $6,250 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetAGRIINSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT START CHILD CARE MINISTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 National FFA Foundation Inc
  • Who funds BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC
  • Who funds KIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
  • Who funds REINS TO RECOVERY INC
  • Who funds BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds COLUMBUS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REACH COLUMBUS INC
  • Who funds COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
  • Who funds ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM
  • Who funds COLUMBUS NORTH HS BAND BOOSTER ASSO
  • Who funds AGRIINSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BRIGHT START CHILD CARE MINISTRY

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.

Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · The Kirr Foundation Inc · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · 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 Landmark Farm 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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
    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 · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Landmark Farm Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Landmark Farm Foundation Inc 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.

    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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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