· Private foundation
Menke Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Asociacin Latinoamericana del Sur de Indiana Inc | $25,000 |
| MENTORS FOR YOUTH OF DUBOIS COUNTY INC | $6,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $6,000 |
| TRADITIONAL ARTS TODAY INC | $5,900 |
| Town of Holland | $3,500 |
| Southwest Indiana Child Advocacy Center Coalition Inc | $500 |
| Vincennes University Jasper Center Foundation Inc | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- MFMENTORS FOR YOUTH OF DUBOIS COUNTY5× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +47%
- HEHUNTINGBURG EVENT CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $25k
- AKA KID'S PLACE3× · 2017–2019 · $21k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- DCDUBOIS COUNTY LEADERSHIP ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $9k
- PFProject Forward Incone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Enhancing quality of life in the region and support economic development by advocating and promoting arts, arts education and arts organizations in Southwestern Indiana.
To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.
To promote conventions and tourism in Dubois County, Indiana
Drug and Alcohol Prevention
To act as Guardian Ad Litem Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children.
To be a resource providing information, oversight, research, and technical assistance to local workforce boards
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
To provide various programs and activities for jefferson county, indiana, girls.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Sw Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Traditional Arts Today Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 20 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 MENTORS FOR YOUTH OF DUBOIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Asociacion Latino Americana del Sur de Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds TRADITIONAL ARTS TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds Southwest Indiana Child Advocacy Center Coalition ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES UNIVERSITY JASPER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
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: Dubois County Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Menke Charitable 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.
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.
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