· Private foundation
PFS Community Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of PFS Community Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Dearborn Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year PFS Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $35k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St John's Ev Lutheran School | $6,000 |
| City of Aurora | $5,000 |
| Main Street Aurora | $3,000 |
| Aurora Public Library | $3,000 |
| Hillforest Historical Foundation Inc | $2,000 |
| Main Street Aurora | $2,000 |
| Main Street Aurora | $2,000 |
| St John's Ev Lutheran School | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Dearborn County 4-H Association | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Historic Hoosier Hill RC&D Inc | $1,000 |
| Indiana Special Olympics Inc | $1,000 |
| Dearborn County 4-H Association | $1,000 |
| Ohio Co Historical Society Inc | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMAIN STREET AURORA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $29k · revenue +11%
- ISINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +39%
- HHHistoric Hoosiers Hills RCD Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- OCOhio County Community Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization PFS Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PFS Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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