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Mercer County Civic Foundation
Community foundation
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.
The 19 grants below total $383,784 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,508,866 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,125,082 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CELINA CITY SCHOOLS | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| MEDICAL EDUCATION & DEVELOP FOUNDAT | $27,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $25,000 |
| MERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| JTD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - NE INDIANA | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CHOOSING LIFE PREGNANCY CTR | $11,000 |
| FAMILY CARE OPTIONS | $10,000 |
| CALL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LAKE AREA ARTS | $10,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $8,900 |
| VAN WERT PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $8,900 |
| FT RECOVERY AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MRMERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +39%
- CLCHOOSING LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +17%
- FCFAMILY CARE OPTIONS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MCMERCER CO HISTORIAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $33k
- CACANCER ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +68%
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Residential retirement living
Training handicapped individuals
Provide services to mentally handicapped and disadvantaged residents of merced county.
The mercer county behavioral health commission, inc. is a private, non-profit organization that assists individuals and families experiencing substance abuse, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or developmental challenges through…
The organization is dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and building a community free of abuse. the mission of the organization is to support and respond to the needs of survivors of violence and/or abuse as well as their…
To provide quality services in a comfortable, empathetic environment to persons suffering from a mental illness or emotional disturbance and to return them to a higher quality of life.
Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.
Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…
To provide support services and assistance to persons suffering from mental illness, such as referrals to professional services, assistance navigating the complicated field of mental health outpatient treatment and in patient hospitals,…
To operate and maintain a skilled nursing facility and personal care home facility for the elderly and indigent of fayette county and surrounding areas.
To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.
Provide support services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercer Residential Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Recovery Area Arts Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 41 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 MERCER RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JTD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOOSING LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT RECOVERY AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HAND-UP VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MAV YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds PRIVATE DUTY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DARKE COUNTY INC DBA EVERHEART HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VENTURELINX ↗
- Who funds Foundations Behavioral Health Services ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Mercer County Civic Foundation 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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