· Community foundation
Noble County Community Foundation Inc
To improve the quality of life in noble county by serving as a catalyst for positive change, enabling donors to carry out charitable intent, and making grants.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,082,783 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,517,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $434,744 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $264k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA | $310,283 |
| COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC | $125,500 |
| NOBLE EARLY LEARNING INC | $101,800 |
| TOWN OF ALBION PARKS DEPARTMENT | $90,572 |
| KENDALLVILLE PARK AND RECREATION | $65,859 |
| GOSHEN COLLEGE INC | $30,350 |
| THRIVE BY 5 | $22,542 |
| IMPACT INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| NOBLE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $15,716 |
| CENTRAL NOBLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP | $15,636 |
| LIGONIER MARSHMALLOW FESTIVAL INC | $14,950 |
| LIGONIER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $14,080 |
| HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES | $14,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN | $13,785 |
| KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER | $13,375 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- CGCOMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +8% · 84% of their budget
- CCCole Center Family YMCA8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +123% · 27% of their budget
- GCGoshen College Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- NCNOBLE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -36%
- ELEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $35k
- KRKENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +459%
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.
To unite its community and improve the quality of life.
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Provide services in response to individual need
To provide impactful services and programs that support sustainable and competitive communities throughout north central indiana.
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To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noble County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Experience the Heart of Kendallville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 87 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 COMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cole Center Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Goshen College Inc ↗
- Who funds NOBLE HOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds ALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BE NOBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds DRUG FREE NOBLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds LIFE & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC NOBLE COUNTY FOUNDATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NOBLE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER-NORTHEAST INDIANA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD FOOD BANK 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: Dekko Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · United Way of Noble County Inc · Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn
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 Noble County Community 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.