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Madison County Community Foundation Inc

Enhancing the quality of life of the citizen's of madison county by attracting charitable gifts, seeking grants, making philanthropic grants in response to community needs and providing responsible financial stewardship and community leadership.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$189k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $911,015 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,897,677 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $986,662 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $427k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $379k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION$189,150
TOWN OF LAPEL$100,000
HEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY$89,667
CHRISTIAN CENTER INC$43,303
OPERATION LOVE MINISTRIES INC$32,300
YMCA OF MADISON COUNTY$28,213
ANDERSON MUSUEM OF ART$27,825
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MADISON$26,312
FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE$25,000
MINORITY HEALTH COALITION OF$25,000
ST VINCENT ANDERSON REGIONAL$20,700
ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$20,269
JOBSOURCE INC$19,500
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH$15,000
ANDERSON PUBLIC LIBRARY$14,763
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 (FY17–24, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 16%Servants at Work: $10k → 16%Servants at Work Inc: $9k → 16%SERVANTS AT WORK INC: $6k → 16%Safe Families for Children: $10k → 16%HAMONY HOUSE MISSION: $10k → 15%YMCA of Anderson: $45k → 15%YMCA of Madison County: $36k → 15%YMCA of Madison County: $36k → 15%YMCA OF MADISON COUNTY: $28k → 15%YMCA OF MADISON COUNTY: $19k → 15%YMCA of Anderson: $11k → 15%YMCA OF MADISON COUNTY: $11k → 15%THE GATHERING OF THE QUEENS INC: $8k → 15%THE GATHERING OF THE QUEENS INC: $8k → 15%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 47 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
73

Total granted

$4.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+21%

Still filing today

55%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • PH
    PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $484k · revenue +141%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF MADISON COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +163%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • IH
    INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $87k · revenue +286%
  • AT
    A TOWN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • CL
    CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $55k

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
Madison County Community Foundation Inc

Enhancing the quality of life of the citizen's of madison county by attracting charitable gifts, seeking grants, making philanthropic grants in response to community needs and providing responsible financial stewardship and community…

Philanthropy
2
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

3
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
4
Madison County Hospital Inc

The mission of madison county hospital, inc. is to manage the assets of the madison county community hospital (mcch) and make investments to further the exempt purpose of the hospital.

Health
5
Indiana Hospital Association Inc

The mission of indiana hospital association, inc. is to provide leadership, representation, and services in the common best interests of its members as they promote the improvement of community health status.

6
Intend Indiana Inc

Intend indiana connects people to opportunity and advances collaborative community development through financing and housing solutions.

Housing & Shelter
7
Madison County Economic Development Inc

The mission of Madison County Economic Development is to plan and undertake activities leading to a steady job growth, increasing economic diversity, and a strengthened employer base which will enhance the quality of life of Madison…

8
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

9
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.

10
Ad-in Inc

Adoptions of indiana seeks to identify and meet the needs of adoptees and birth and adoptive families through compassionate and comprehensive adoption services.

Human Services
11
Aspire Indiana Health Inc

To provide quality primary health care and related services to those in need of medical care, including the medically underserved and vulnerable populations of boone, marion, madison, and hamilton counties in indiana, regardless of the…

Health
12
Indiana Soybean Alliance Inc

The overall mission of the indiana soybean alliance (isa) is to proactively work with partners to improve the opportunities for indiana soybean farmers. to accomplish this mission, in 2023 the isa board of directors modified the strategic…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Midwest Men of Integrity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChildcare and Early Educati…Hospital Systems and Health…Arts Education & PerformanceYouth and Amateur Sports Or…Healthcare Industry Associa…Education-Employment Pipeli…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr15%10%5–10yr15%12%10–20yr13%15%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr26%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%8%<5yr15%2%5–10yr15%6%10–20yr13%6%20–35yr11%36%35–55yr26%43%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/86
the rest of the field
13%
1,085/8,372

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 133 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc — $558,069 · OtherUnited Way of Madison County Indiana IncIndividual grant recipient — $415,182 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF ANDERSON INDIANA — $172,828 · Other+100 more — $2,394,264 · Other+100 moreANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $386,781 · EducationANDERSON UNIVE…LAPEL ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO aka LAPEL PTO — $196,277 · EducationLAPEL ELEMENTA…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $88,067 · EducationIVY TECH FOUND…Ball State University Foundation Inc — $55,000 · EducationBall State Uni…+2 more — $27,362 · EducationPARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $484,174 · Arts & CulturePARAMOUNT HE…INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $86,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HIST…ANDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC — $67,167 · Arts & CultureANDERSON SYM…+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $185,990 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,123 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesServants at Work Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Gathering of the Queens Inc — $15,750 · Human Services+5 more — $41,800 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN CENTER INC — $165,384 · ReligionMad Co Sheriffs Dept Chaplaincy — $21,700 · ReligionCOMBAT MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANDERSON AND MADISON COUNTY INC — $76,846 · HealthGATEWAY ASSOCIATION INC — $34,400 · HealthMINORITY HEALTH COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY — $30,100 · HealthSOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA INC — $15,000 · HealthAspire Indiana Inc — $10,000 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC — $7,500 · HealthLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $85,000 · International
Other$3,540,343Education$753,487Arts & Culture$645,341Human Services$338,663Religion$194,084Health$173,846International$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited Way of Madison County Indiana Inc — $558,069 over 8y, 15% of budgetPARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $484,174 over 8y, 23% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $386,781 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $185,990 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER INC — $165,384 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetANDERSON FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $93,677 over 4y, 12% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $88,067 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $86,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $78,404 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANDERSON AND MADISON COUNTY INC — $76,846 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $76,135 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetANDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC — $67,167 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetOPERATION LOVE MINISTRIES INC — $65,658 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY — $60,261 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,123 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY ASSOCIATION INC — $34,400 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMINORITY HEALTH COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY — $30,100 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMADISON COUNTY 4-H AGRICULTURAL ASSOC — $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetServants at Work Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMad Co Sheriffs Dept Chaplaincy — $21,700 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlexandria Community Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJOBSOURCE INC — $19,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $17,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetLeadership Academy of Madison County Inc — $16,552 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe Gathering of the Queens Inc — $15,750 over 2y, 15% of budgetSOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUEINC — $14,016 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL ANDERSON IN — $11,489 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetANDERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,810 over 1y, 17% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAspire Indiana Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL IMPACT MISSIONS-ORG - INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHarmony House Mission Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlexandria Main Street Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOMBAT MINISTRIES INC — $7,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ELWOOD MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMIDWEST MEN OF INTEGRITY INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAnderson Area Chamber of Commerce Inc — $6,066 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA PROGRAM OF MADISON COUNTY INC DBA EAST CENTRAL INDIANA CASA — $5,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHopewell Center Inc — $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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 United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc
  • Who funds PARAMOUNT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds LAPEL ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO aka LAPEL PTO
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF MADISON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER INC
  • Who funds ANDERSON FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
  • Who funds RICE LAKE AREA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANDERSON AND MADISON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MADISON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds ANDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC
  • Who funds OPERATION LOVE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY
  • Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PERKINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC
  • Who funds GATEWAY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds MINORITY HEALTH COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY

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.

Gaither Charitable Foundation IncIN38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · St Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Madison County Indiana Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

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 Madison County Community 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Madison County Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Madison County Community 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 133 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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