· Private foundation
Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST | $98,000 |
| TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY | $53,200 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC | $26,000 |
| WORKFORCE INC DBA RECYCLEFORCE | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $20,000 |
| EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREENFIELD MAIN STREET | $5,000 |
| THE LANDING PLACE | $3,700 |
| NEW PALESTINE YOUTH LEAGUE | $3,300 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,200 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOO | $1,500 |
| KENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASSOC | $1,000 |
| COPS FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- LMLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +109%
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +21%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- GCGREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -68%
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY 4Hone grant, 2022 · $20k
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY AG COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
To improve the County and community fair grounds and facilities.
The corporations purpose is to encourage, support, and assist in activities and projects that further the social, cultural, and economic development, redevelopment, and rehabilitation in and around hancock county indiana.
Hancock county junior fair
Our mission is to help the citizens of hancock county maintain an independent lifestyle through the delivery of nutritious meals in accordance with prescribed dietary needs and provide a point of personal contact with the community.
The hancock county farm bureau foundation was formed to carry out charitable, scientific, literary, and educational work in the fields of agriculture, horticulture, and animal sciences.
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Conduct annual county fair
Provide affordable and depenable daycare and head start programs for hancock county and the surrounding areas
To collect, preserve, interpret and promote interest in the history of huntington county, indiana. the society presents its collection to the public through exhibitions, educational programs and publications.
To measureably improve people's lives in hancock county.
Our mission is to feed and serve the hungry. we strive to eliminate food insecurity in hancock county. we treat all with respect so that they leave our pantry not just with groceries, but with dignity and hope.
The organization assists local individuals and families in need: physically, economically, emotionally, and spiritually. this is done without restriction to race, religious belief, national origin, gender, age, handicap, or political…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Hancock County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shelby Foundation for Kindness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock County Arts Council ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELBY FOUNDATION FOR KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society 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: Community Foundation of Hancock County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Pope & Edwards Family 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.