· Private foundation
Menke Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENNES UNIVERSITY JASPER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Menke Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Menke Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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