· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of MOTHER BEAR CHARITABLE 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (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 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 — 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
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
- AFALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +21%
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +2%- 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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Evansville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Lambs of Evansville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 53 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Mother Bear 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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