· Private foundation
Leo & Mildred Bringwald Family Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of LEO & MILDRED BRINGWALD FAMILY FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,860 |
| FAMILY BIBLE CHURCH | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $1,200 |
| CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $1,200 |
| HOLT INTERNATIONAL | $1,018 |
| WARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB | $1,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLE | $454 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $204 |
| Individual grant recipient | $155 |
| VINCENNES EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $150 |
| VINCENNES ROTARY FOUNDATION | $104 |
| FOP LODGE 62 | $100 |
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 (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TVThe Villages of Indiana Inc2× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +22%
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE2× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +421%- IMINDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM INC2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- RCRILEY CHEER GUILD INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +12%
- GGFAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- DCDream Center Evansvillegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +109%
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.
Honoring hoosier veterans
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.
Fraternal, patriotic, historic, and educational mission to preserve, strengthen, and assist Comrades, their Families, and the Community through activities at a common location.
House of Hope of Northeast Indiana is organized to reconcile dysfunctional families by nurturing the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of troubled teenagers (ages 12 to 17 years) within their families, as well as provide counseling…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Veterans service Org assist veterans, military active duty, families & communities in VA representation, educational & historical programs, patriotism, community service & welfare.
Catholic men dedicated to the principles of charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism along with the encouragement to those who have chosen a vocation to the religious life.
To provide air relief and historical preservation and education to our community.
To bring and perpetuate healing to the body of christ so that the body of christ can bring healing to the world.
Provide support to children in need, with special attention to those who require medical attention.
To provide transportation of veterans to Washington DC War Memorial
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Villages of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Revelation Media Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 57 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 Wesselman Nature Society Inc ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RILEY CHEER GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Dream Center Evansville ↗
- Who funds ALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Holly's House Inc ↗
- Who funds GODS NOT DEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Shrine Club ↗
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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The McCormick Family Foundationinc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Leo & Mildred Bringwald Family Fdn 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.