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Parke County Community Foundation Inc
To help donors improve the quality of life in parke county, indiana.
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 34 grants below total $788,385 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,254,531 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $466,146 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 $10k16 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $292,174 |
| PARKE PLAYERS INC | $62,825 |
| PARKE VERMILLION HUMANE SOCIETY | $58,449 |
| LYFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $38,006 |
| NORTH CENTRAL PARKE SCHOOL CORP | $30,150 |
| S VERMILLION COMM SCHOOL CORP | $25,890 |
| PARKE TRAILS ALLIANCE | $24,549 |
| CHILD ADULT RESOURCE SERVICE INC | $23,639 |
| SOUTHWEST PARKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $18,011 |
| MARSHALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $14,000 |
| BLOOMINGDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $13,799 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,300 |
| BRIDGETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $11,000 |
| MECCA WABASH TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP | $11,000 |
| ROCKVILLE ADAMS TWP FIRE DEPT | $10,800 |
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 (FY19–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 21 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k 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
- PVPARKE VERMILLION CO HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +46%
- PPPARKE PLAYERS INCORPORATED7× · 2018–2024 · $209k · revenue +88% · 39% of their budget
- PPPARTNERSHIP PARKE COUNTY INCORPORATED5× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PCPARKE COUNTY FOOD SECURITY ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $41k
- SCSUGAR CREEK RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $30k
- SPSOUTHWEST PARKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $22k
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.
Provided ambulance service and fire protection to northeastern portion of rual cocke county at no cost.
To provide Fire Protection and EMS services to the Perry Township of Lawrence County, Indiana.
Volunteer fire dept. and ambulance service
Volunteer Fire Department
To preserve and protect lives and property from loss or damage by fire
Animal shelter
Provide firefighting services
Oversee Voluntary Fire and rescue
Fire protection
Volunteer firefighting for the town of kouts, indiana and its surrounding areas in pleasant township, porter county, in
Emergency first aid & rescue
volunteer fire department for the town of Pawlet
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parke County Community Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 6% lost their exemption, against 6% 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 71 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 Community Action Program Inc of Western Indiana ↗
- Who funds PARKE VERMILLION CO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARKE PLAYERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP PARKE COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARKE COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKE COUNTY 4-H FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds PARKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CHILD-ADULT RESOURCE SERVICES 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: Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · 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 Parke 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.
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