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Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2026still arriving
23
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$196kYouth Development$143kReligion$139kHealth$136kHousing & Shelter$100kPhilanthropy$81kFood & Nutrition$69kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2026 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k16 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
$3,300
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST$55,000
TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY$51,700
HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC$26,000
LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY$15,000
ALABAMA SHERIFFS BOYS RANCH$15,000
RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$10,000
GREENFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC$10,000
THE LANDING PLACE$5,000
GREENFIELD MAIN STREET$5,000
EASTERN HANCOCK ATHLETIC BOOSTER$5,000
HANCOCK HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
NEW PALESTINE YOUTH LEAGUE$3,300
INDIANAPOLIS ZOO$2,500
NAMELESS CREEK YOUTH CAMP$1,700
HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$1,700
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $30k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 20%EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 5%SHELBY FOUNDATION FOR KINDNESS DELIVERED: $6k → 16%HANCOCK COUNTY 4H: $20k → 19%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $25k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 20%EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%KINDNESS DELIVERED: $5k → 16%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $15k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $15k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $15k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%ALABAMA SHERIFFS BOYS RANCH: $15k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $15k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%ALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $10k → 12%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $98k → 5%WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $55k → 5%WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $20k → 5%WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10k → 5%TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY: $53k → 5%TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY: $52k → 5%TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY: $41k → 5%GREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $36k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC: $36k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY COMM FDN: $35k → 5%KENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN: $30k → 5%ELITE ATHLETIC TREND: $30k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC: $26k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC: $26k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY: $20k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY AG COUNCIL: $20k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY AG ASSOC: $20k → 5%TALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY: $18k → 5%GREENFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC: $10k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%HANCOCK COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $10k → 5%GREENFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC: $10k → 5%HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 5%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+35%

Still filing today

48%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Food & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LM
    LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2026 · $130k · revenue +109%
  • HC
    HANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $108k · revenue +21%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -68%
  • WI
    WORKFORCE INC DBA RECYCLEFORCE
    one grant, 2025 · $20k
  • HC
    HANCOCK COUNTY 4H
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
John Hancock Community Development

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.

Community Improvement
2
Hancock County Community Committee

To improve the County and community fair grounds and facilities.

Recreation & Sports
3
Hancock County Agricultural Society

Hancock county junior fair

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4
Hancock County Farm Bureau Foundation

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.

Education
5
Hamilton County Historical Society

To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana

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6
Meals On Wheels of Hancock County Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Hancock County Learning Center

Provide affordable and depenable daycare and head start programs for hancock county and the surrounding areas

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8
Dekalb County Fair Association Inc

Conduct annual county fair

Recreation & Sports
9
Hancock County Performing Arts Center Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to serve as a supporting organization for the sole benefit of the Hancock County Performing Arts Center.

Arts & Culture
10
Humane Society Foundation of Hancock County

The sole purpose of the humane society foundation is to provide funds and an operating facility for the humane society & spca of hancock county, findlay ohio.

Animals
11
United Way of Hancock County Inc

To measureably improve people's lives in hancock county.

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12
Hancock County Agricultural Society

This corporation ( hancock county agricultural society ) sole purpose is to put on the blue hill fair.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Hancock County Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $183,000 · OtherWILKINSON CHURCH OF CHRISTTALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERY: $162,900 · OtherTALITHA KOUM WOMENS RECOVERYALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCH: $140,000 · OtherALABAMA SHERIFF'S BOYS RANCHHANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $108,000 · OtherHANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INCHANCOCK COUNTY COMM FDN: $37,500 · OtherGREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherGREENFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC: $30,000 · Other+22 more: $163,600 · Other+22 moreLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationLINCOLN MEMO…THE LANDING PLACE INC: $9,200 · EducationTHE LANDING …EASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC: $43,000 · PhilanthropyKENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $36,700 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $7,200 · Food & NutritionHANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,700 · Food & NutritionGREENFIELD MAIN STREET INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHANCOCK COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementHancock County Arts Council: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHANCOCK REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthALTERNATIVES INC: $2,500 · Health
Other$893,000Education$139,200Philanthropy$88,000Food & Nutrition$50,600Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$22,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $108,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetEASTERN HANCOCK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $36,700 over 4y, 13% of budgetGREENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGREENFIELD MAIN STREET INC: $25,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHancock County Arts Council: $22,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHE LANDING PLACE INC: $9,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SHELBY FOUNDATION FOR KINDNESS: $6,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU INC: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 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 GREENFIELD MAIN STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds Hancock County Arts Council ↗
  • Who funds THE LANDING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELBY FOUNDATION FOR KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds HANCOCK REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMELESS CREEK YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA TROOPERS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Lilly Endowment IncUnited Way of Central…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Hancock County IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pope & Edwards Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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