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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$883k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$1.1MHuman Services$521kEducation$372kEnvironment$219kCommunity Improvement$126kRecreation & Sports$124kAnimals$72kArts & Culture$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,136,569, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,688,511 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $551,942 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 $10k9 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
  • $250k+1 grant · $883k
$12,227
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPENCER PRIDE INC: $57k → 14%AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGINGRURAL TRANSIT: $22k → 18%SPENCER PRIDE INC: $35k → 14%AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGING: $41k → 18%AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGING: $40k → 18%AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGING: $13k → 18%AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGING: $9k → 18%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $74k → 14%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $66k → 14%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 14%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $22k → 14%SPENCER PRIDE INC: $18k → 14%OWEN CO FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 14%MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 14%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $16k → 14%MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC: $14k → 14%MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC: $14k → 14%OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $13k → 14%SPENCER PRIDE: $11k → 14%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-14%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • OC
    OWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +28%
  • IA
    INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $211k · revenue +167%
  • A1
    AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CR
    CROSSROADS RANCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14% · 40% of their budget
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
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
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

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2
Oxbow of Indiana Inc

To protect and preserve wetlands

Environment
3
Ohio County Tourism Inc

To promote town of rising sun indiana.

Public Benefit
4
Ouabache Land Conservancy Inc

The Ouabache Land Conservancy protects, preserves and restores land in west-central Indiana to provide habitat for wildlife, maintain natural scenic beauty, improve water and air quality, while enhancing the quality of life in our…

Environment
5
Oakwood Cemetery Association

To provide and operate a cemetery in warren, ohio.

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6
Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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7
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies
Food & Nutrition
8
Economic Development Corporation of Wayne County Indiana

To promote and support economic development, growth and expansion within the wayne county, indiana area.

Community Improvement
9
Henry County Rural Electric Membership Corporation

Provide reliable, safe and cost-competitive electric service to enhance the lives of our members and the communities we serve.

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10
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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11
Ohio County Ind Agricultural Society of

Provides union county with agricultural education and entertainment. all county residents benefir by attending or participating

Food & Nutrition
12
West Central Indiana Economic Development District Inc

Economic development, elderly services and transportation planning

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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF SPENCER: $882,665 · OtherTOWN OF SPENCERSPENCER-OWEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $270,003 · OtherSPENCER-OWEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLSTOWN OF SPENCER: $113,217 · OtherTOWN OF SPENCERSPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $94,865 · Other+28 more: $426,528 · Other+28 moreOWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $234,803 · Human ServicesOWEN COUNTY FAMILY YM…AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC: $124,889 · Human ServicesAREA 10 COUNCIL ON AG…SPENCER PRIDE: $121,780 · Human ServicesSPENCER PRIDETHE MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC: $43,709 · Human ServicesTHE MARK OF DISCIPLES…INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION: $211,102 · EnvironmentOWEN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $97,415 · Recreation & SportsOWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $72,011 · AnimalsOWEN NEWS PROJECT INC: $35,282 · Arts & CultureCROSSROADS RANCH INC: $25,300 · Public BenefitOWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,512 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,787,278Human Services$525,181Environment$211,102Recreation & Sports$97,415Animals$72,011Arts & Culture$35,282Public Benefit$25,300Philanthropy$18,512

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOWEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $234,803 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetINDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION: $211,102 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC: $124,889 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSPENCER PRIDE: $121,780 over 4y, 41% of budgetOWEN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $97,415 over 5y, 18% of budgetSPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $94,865 over 4y, 15% of budgetOWEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $72,011 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE MARK OF DISCIPLESHIP INC: $43,709 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetOWEN NEWS PROJECT INC: $35,282 over 1y, 28% of budgetCROSSROADS RANCH INC: $25,300 over 1y, 40% of budgetOwen County Preservations Inc: $19,649 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $17,772 over 2y, 12% of budgetOWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,512 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 285: $5,055 over 1y, 2.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Smithville Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Smithville Charitable Foundation IncIN19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Owen County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owen County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 43 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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