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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.7MReligion$2.2MArts & Culture$732kEducation$698kRecreation & Sports$519kHealth$311kAnimals$265kPublic Safety & Disaster$238kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,082,783, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,517,527 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $434,744 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $264k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $6k → 12%LUTHERAN LIFE VILLAGES: $8k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $6k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $6k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NE INDIANA: $10k → 12%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS: $8k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NE INDIANA: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NE INDIANA: $8k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $7k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $6k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $6k → 12%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $861k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $310k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $184k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $150k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $138k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $129k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $126k → 10%COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA: $114k → 10%THE APPLE TREE CENTER: $20k → 10%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $16k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $13k → 10%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $13k → 10%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $13k → 10%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $12k → 10%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $10k → 10%THE APPLE TREE CENTER: $10k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $9k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $8k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $8k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $8k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $8k → 10%THE APPLE TREE CENTER: $7k → 10%KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 47 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
28

Total granted

$8.0M
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+12%

Still filing today

66%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CG
    COMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +8% · 84% of their budget
  • CC
    Cole Center Family YMCA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +123% · 27% of their budget
  • GC
    Goshen College Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • NC
    NOBLE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -36%
  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • KR
    KENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +459%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United Way of Noble County Inc

To unite its community and improve the quality of life.

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2
Noble Inc

Since its funding in 1953, NOBLE INC has provided a variety of services and support to children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families in Central Indiana. Noble's mission is to create opportunities for people with…

Human Services
3
Noblesville Main Street Inc

Noblesville main street leads and organizes resources to develop and promote the economic and cultural vitality of downtown noblesville, indiana while preserving and enhancing authentic historic assets.

Community Improvement
4
Noblesville Creates

Noblesville Creates cultivates arts resources to enrich the lives of everyone who experiences our community. We serve as the regional arts partner for the Indiana Arts Commission, serving seven counties in Central Indiana.

Arts & Culture
5
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
6
North Central Indiana Regional Planning Council Inc

To provide impactful services and programs that support sustainable and competitive communities throughout north central indiana.

Community Improvement
7
North Country Family Health Center Inc

To improve the health, wellness, and quality of life of all individuals in our community by providing accessible, high quality, affordable, patient-centered and integrated health services.

Health
8
Northeastern Center Inc

With five outpatient office locations in northeast indiana, northeastern center helps individuals achieve emotional and mental wholeness through accessible, affordable, and quality behavioral health services.

Health
9
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
10
New Beginnings Child Care of Montgomery County Indiana Inc

A Childcare Ministry providing exciting learning opportunities for the children in our care in a safe nurturing Christian environment while allowing for unique individual growth.

Human Services
11
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

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12
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noble County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
30/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF KENDALLVILLE: $758,133 · OtherCITY OF KENDALLVILLETOWN OF ALBION PARKS DEPARTMENT: $173,375 · OtherTOWN OF ALBION PARKS DEPARTMENTWEST NOBLE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $161,896 · OtherAVILLA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN INC: $154,776 · OtherST PATRICKS CHURCH: $124,864 · Other+54 more: $1,785,618 · Other+54 moreCole Center Family YMCA: $2,011,777 · Human ServicesCole Center Family YMCATHE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $83,810 · Human Services+8 more: $162,108 · Human Services+8 moreCOMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $2,048,603 · ReligionCOMMON GRACE MINISTRIES IN…Goshen College Inc: $232,812 · EducationALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $111,074 · EducationNOBLE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES INC: $64,650 · Education+3 more: $31,680 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC: $259,124 · Animals+1 more: $5,730 · AnimalsST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $88,500 · HealthHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $40,100 · HealthWOMENS CARE CENTER-NORTHEAST INDIANA: $37,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $31,500 · HealthCENTRAL NOBLE FOOD PANTRY: $25,892 · HealthHEART REACH CARMEL INC: $15,540 · Health+2 more: $14,986 · HealthNOBLE HOUSEINC: $181,579 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,158,662Human Services$2,257,695Religion$2,048,603Education$440,216Animals$264,854Health$254,018Housing & Shelter$181,579

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $2,048,603 over 8y, 84% of budgetCole Center Family YMCA: $2,011,777 over 8y, 27% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NOBLE COUNTY INC: $259,124 over 3y, 53% of budgetGoshen College Inc: $232,812 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNOBLE HOUSEINC: $181,579 over 8y, 19% of budgetALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $111,074 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBE NOBLE INC: $99,355 over 2y, 42% of budgetNOBLE TRAILS INC: $97,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetDRUG FREE NOBLE COUNTY INC: $92,175 over 5y, 31% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $91,432 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $89,752 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $89,638 over 3y, 72% of budgetST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $88,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CREW YOUTH CENTER INC: $83,810 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHE ARC NOBLE COUNTY FOUNDATIONS INCORPORATED: $81,465 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNOBLE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES INC: $64,650 over 3y, 26% of budgetKENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $59,707 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $56,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $55,757 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $40,100 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWOMENS CARE CENTER-NORTHEAST INDIANA: $37,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $33,207 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $31,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $27,060 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $26,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMILFORD FOOD BANK INC: $25,998 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL NOBLE FOOD PANTRY: $25,892 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,542 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAPPLE TREE CENTER INC: $16,756 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITOR BUREAU INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLIGONIER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $14,080 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $10,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $8,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN HOMES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $7,486 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK FARM SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $6,395 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC: $5,730 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Dekko Foundation IncThe James Foundation …Olive B Cole Foundati…Community Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…United Way of Noble C…Dekalb County Communi…M E Raker Foundation …Lincoln Financial Fou…Do It Best Foundation…Edward M Wilson Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…
Dekko Foundation IncIN48.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Noble County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noble County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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