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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $1,136,569 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,688,511 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $551,942 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 $10k9 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
- $250k+1 grant · $883k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF SPENCER | $882,665 |
| OWEN NEWS PROJECT INC | $35,282 |
| LA CAMPAGNE MINISTRIES | $30,756 |
| OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $26,151 |
| MCCORMICK'S CREEK STATE PARK | $26,134 |
| SPENCER PRIDE INC | $18,041 |
| OWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $14,781 |
| MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC | $13,618 |
| SPENCER MAIN STREET | $12,276 |
| OWEN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & EDC | $12,227 |
| TOWN OF GOSPORT | $9,424 |
| OWEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $8,883 |
| FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE | $7,999 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,098 |
| FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,678 |
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, $525k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- OCOWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +28%
- IAINDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION5× · 2017–2021 · $211k · revenue +167%
- A1AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CRCROSSROADS RANCH INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14% · 40% of their budget
- IUIndiana University School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $23k
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.
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Provide reliable, safe and cost-competitive electric service to enhance the lives of our members and the communities we serve.
To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
Provides union county with agricultural education and entertainment. all county residents benefir by attending or participating
Economic development, elderly services and transportation planning
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Owen County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mark of Discipleship 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 43 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 OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Owen County Preservations Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Owen County Community Foundation 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.