· Private foundation
Mother Bear Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k16 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE VANDERBURGH COUNTY | $20,000 |
| ST JAMES SCHOOL | $18,585 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $16,911 |
| OZANAM FAMILY SHELTER CORP | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE | $10,211 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $9,750 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH | $9,606 |
| EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $5,750 |
| THE ARC OF EVANSVILLE | $5,500 |
| STRINGTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,023 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,921 |
| ST BENEDICT CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $4,600 |
| HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,746 |
| ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,200 |
| RESURRECTION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,778 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $152k) 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 its grants land in higher-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.
28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +9%
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +27%- LCLAMPION CENTER INC3× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
- MEMARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +83%
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +72%
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.
Sheltered home environment
To provide shelter for victims of domestic violence
Vera house, inc. prevents, responds to and partners to end domestic and sexual violence and other forms of abuse.
Advocates for Victims of Violence provides emergency shelter and essential services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
To provide comprehensive, affordable medical, psychiatric and health-related services to the community's most vulnerable populations, regardless of income.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Auburn valley humane society enriches the lives of companion animals and people through animal sheltering, programs, services and community engagement
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
Susie's Place promotes the prevention, justice and healing of child victims of abuse and violence while maintaining the comfort and safety of the child as the first priority.
Help domestic violence victims gain immediate safety plus the knowledge, skills and resources to succeed in lives free of violence.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 53 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 ALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LAMPION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE ARC INC ↗
- Who funds Ozanam Family Shelter Corp ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO TRACE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #156 ↗
- Who funds MARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Holly's House Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Henry F Koch Residual Trust Co Fifth Third · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mother Bear Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mother Bear Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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