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Owen County Community Foundation
The OWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is committed to help make our communities become better places to grow, work, and live. The foundation also matches donors with needs in owen county.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,227
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $882,665
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Owen County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $1.1M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $222k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $444k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $278k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $148k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $117k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $112k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $302k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer-Owen Community Schools | $270,003 | 7 | n/a |
| Owen County Family YMCA Inc | $234,803 | 7 | 9% |
| Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation | $211,102 | 5 | 2% |
| Area 10 Council on Aging of Monroe and Owen Counties Inc | $124,889 | 5 | 1% |
| Spencer Pride | $121,780 | 4 | 41% |
| Town of Spencer | $113,217 | 3 | n/a |
| Owen County Fair Association Inc | $97,415 | 5 | 18% |
| Spencer-Owen County Economic Development Corporation | $94,865 | 4 | 15% |
| Owen County Humane Society Inc | $72,011 | 6 | 11% |
| Town of Gosport | $49,569 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer-Owen Community Schools | $270,003 | 7 | n/a |
| Owen County Family YMCA Inc | $234,803 | 7 | 9% |
| Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation | $211,102 | 5 | 2% |
| Area 10 Council on Aging of Monroe and Owen Counties Inc | $124,889 | 5 | 1% |
| Spencer Pride | $121,780 | 4 | 41% |
| Town of Spencer | $113,217 | 3 | n/a |
| Owen County Fair Association Inc | $97,415 | 5 | 18% |
| Spencer-Owen County Economic Development Corporation | $94,865 | 4 | 15% |
| Owen County Humane Society Inc | $72,011 | 6 | 11% |
| Town of Gosport | $49,569 | 2 | n/a |
| The Mark of Discipleship Inc | $43,709 | 3 | 7% |
| Owen News Project Inc | $35,282 | 1 | 28% |
| Owen County Public Library | $32,610 | 2 | n/a |
| La Campagne Ministries Inc | $30,756 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Community Schools | $27,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Crossroads Ranch Inc | $25,300 | 1 | 40% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $25,058 | 1 | n/a |
| Owen County Preservations Inc | $19,649 | 2 | 8% |
| Spencer Main Street Inc | $18,472 | 2 | n/a |
| Riverside Cemetery Association Inc | $17,772 | 2 | 12% |
| Garrard Chapel | $15,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Gosport Museum Society | $14,934 | 2 | n/a |
| Cataract Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $8,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Riverside | $7,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Township Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 183 | $6,703 | 1 | n/a |
| Freedom Community Center Inc | $6,678 | 1 | n/a |
| Owen County Sheriff | $6,366 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of South Central Indiana | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Owen County Christian Programs Inc | $5,562 | 1 | n/a |
| American Legion Post 285 | $5,055 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Owen County Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Owen County Community Foundation
- How much does Owen County Community Foundation give?
- Owen County Community Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,136,569, out of $1,688,511 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Owen County Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (39%), Human Services (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are Owen County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spencer-Owen Community Schools ($270k), Owen County Family YMCA Inc ($235k), Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation ($211k).
- Does Owen County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Owen County Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Owen County Community Foundation based?
- Owen County Community Foundation is based in IN.
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