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Paul Ogle Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MEnvironment$3.5MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$1.4MCommunity Improvement$773kHealth$660kArts & Culture$259kYouth Development$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $557k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY$500,000
FAMILY ARK$300,000
GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA$125,000
SCOTT COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$81,500
BRANDON'S HOUSE COUNSELING CENTER$50,000
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$10,000
ONE SOUTHERN INDIANA$5,000
SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
INDIANA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE$3,050
FUND FOR THE ARTS$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHOICES FOR WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC: $44k → 12%CHOICES FOR WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC: $35k → 12%HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $25k → 10%FAMILY ARK INC: $500k → 10%FAMILY ARK: $300k → 10%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $150k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 19 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
28

Total granted

$6.5M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

84%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalOther

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

  • RH
    RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue ×19 · 50% of their budget
  • FA
    FAMILY ARK INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +100%
  • FC
    FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • SI
    Serenity Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -49% · 37% of their budget
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $363k · revenue -7%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
3
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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5
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

—
8
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
9
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
11
The Jackson County United Way Inc

Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.

Philanthropy
12
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Access Ventures 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr15%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%39%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
2,329/18,267

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 53 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $3,241,500 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROG…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING IN…+6 more — $366,100 · Philanthropy+6 moreRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $3,316,133 · Recreation & SportsRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $200,000 · Recreation & Sports21ST CENTURY PARKS INC+1 more — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $600,000 · OtherIVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEG…INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST — $260,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHE…GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $200,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $200,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS …HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $150,000 · OtherNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION — $150,000 · OtherENDEAVOR EDGE INC — $150,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA — $147,846 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherACCESS VENTURES INC — $150,000 · OtherWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $150,000 · Other+18 more — $584,200 · Other+18 moreFAMILY ARK INC — $800,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY ARK…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & C…CHOICES FOR WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER JEFFERSON COUNTY — $79,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES FO…+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesENDEAVOR LOUISVILLE INC — $375,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $363,000 · InternationalSerenity Inc — $400,000 · HealthTHE DREAM FACTORY INC — $60,000 · HealthTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $30,500 · Arts & CultureCONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$4,107,600Recreation & Sports$3,546,133Other$2,977,046Human Services$1,204,000International$738,000Health$460,000Arts & Culture$345,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $3,316,133 over 5y, 50% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $3,241,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY ARK INC — $800,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSerenity Inc — $400,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetENDEAVOR LOUISVILLE INC — $375,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $363,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetACCESS VENTURES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSCOTT COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHOICES FOR WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER JEFFERSON COUNTY — $79,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSt Elizabeth Catholic Charities Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $70,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetONE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBrandons House Counseling Center — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $33,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $30,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSwitzerland County Historical Society Inc — $25,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetCONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $5,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Horseshoe Foundation …The Gheens Foundation…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Hazel & Walter Bales …Brown-Forman Foundati…Norton Healthcare IncRepublic Bank Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…V V Cooke Foundation …Community Foundation …
Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County IncIN38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation · Brown-Forman Foundation · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc

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 Paul Ogle 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    8report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Paul Ogle Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Paul Ogle Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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