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Putnam County Community Foundation Inc
The putnam county community foundation partners with those who give to enrich the quality of life and strengthen community for this and future generations.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,861
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $211,771
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Putnam County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $869k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $820k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $605k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $662k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $520k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $549k | 33% |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$715kHealth$440kReligion$430kAnimals$189kPhilanthropy$183kHousing & Shelter$171kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Putnam County Museum Inc | $1,048,900 | 9 | 87% |
| Friends of the Putnam County Public Library | $613,282 | 9 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Wabash Valley Inc | $610,066 | 3 | 12% |
| Putnam County Hospital | $356,466 | 8 | n/a |
| DePauw University | $318,628 | 4 | 0% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $253,959 | 7 | 1% |
| Beyond Homeless Inc | $206,859 | 7 | 77% |
| Humane Society of Putnam County Inc | $202,482 | 9 | 8% |
| City of Goshen Parks & Recreation Department | $169,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Dollars for Scholars | $148,954 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 86 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Putnam County Museum Inc | $1,048,900 | 9 | 87% |
| Friends of the Putnam County Public Library | $613,282 | 9 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Wabash Valley Inc | $610,066 | 3 | 12% |
| Putnam County Hospital | $356,466 | 8 | n/a |
| DePauw University | $318,628 | 4 | 0% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $253,959 | 7 | 1% |
| Beyond Homeless Inc | $206,859 | 7 | 77% |
| Humane Society of Putnam County Inc | $202,482 | 9 | 8% |
| City of Goshen Parks & Recreation Department | $169,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Dollars for Scholars | $148,954 | 8 | n/a |
| Greencastleputnam Co Developmt Cntr Inc | $145,203 | 6 | 21% |
| United Way of Putnam County Inc | $143,008 | 4 | 27% |
| Putnam County Family Support Services Inc | $142,731 | 7 | 3% |
| Putnam County Comprehensive Services Inc | $141,388 | 6 | 0% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $126,509 | 6 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Greencastle Indiana Inc | $122,904 | 9 | n/a |
| Gobin Memorial United Methodist | $118,345 | 7 | n/a |
| Greencastle Presbyterian Church | $106,474 | 6 | n/a |
| Greencastle Community School Corporation | $100,210 | 4 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $85,133 | 4 | 0% |
| Russellville Community Center | $84,436 | 4 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Community Schools | $69,560 | 1 | n/a |
| Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County Indiana Inc | $66,831 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Park Association of Putnam County Inc | $61,272 | 2 | 14% |
| Putnam County Coalition for Education and the Creative Arts Inc | $60,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Mary Allison Children's Home | $55,511 | 6 | 31% |
| Isaiah 117 House | $52,015 | 3 | 0% |
| Cummins Behavioral Health Systems Inc | $51,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clear Run Cemetery | $50,163 | 6 | n/a |
| Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Putnam County Community Emergency Response Team Inc | $48,268 | 4 | n/a |
| St Andrews Episcopal Church | $47,663 | 4 | n/a |
| Putnam County Fair & 4-H Club Assn | $47,658 | 6 | 2% |
| Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church | $46,433 | 2 | n/a |
| Putnam County Playhouse Inc | $45,324 | 4 | 13% |
| Greencastle Civic League | $45,167 | 4 | n/a |
| Lakeland Center Inc | $41,456 | 5 | 9% |
| North Putnam Alumni Association | $41,261 | 3 | n/a |
| Greencastle Christian Church Inc | $39,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Putnam County Kids Count Inc | $37,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Roachdale Christian Church Inc | $33,601 | 2 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Community Housing Inc | $31,610 | 2 | 16% |
| Old National Trail Special Services | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Purdue University | $29,785 | 3 | n/a |
| Rockford University | $28,026 | 2 | 0% |
| Town of Roachdale | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greencastle Summer Music Inc | $26,790 | 3 | n/a |
| Recovery Raw Inc | $26,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Putnam County Youth Development Comm Inc | $25,861 | 2 | 8% |
| Asbury Towers Retirement Community Inc | $23,882 | 4 | 0% |
| Association for Educational Communications and Technology | $22,347 | 1 | 3% |
| Greencastle Fire Department | $22,003 | 2 | n/a |
| Area 30 Career Center | $21,177 | 2 | n/a |
| Phil the Need | $20,872 | 2 | n/a |
| Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry | $20,700 | 2 | 17% |
| Pigasus Institute Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Constellation Stage & Screen Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ivy Tech Community College of In | $19,832 | 1 | n/a |
| South Putnam Dollars for Scholars | $18,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Return-A-Gift | $18,425 | 3 | n/a |
| Mental Health America of Putnam County Inc | $18,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Main St | $17,226 | 1 | n/a |
| Edge 21 Inc | $16,260 | 2 | n/a |
| New Life Baptist Church | $15,675 | 2 | n/a |
| Fillmore Community Vol Fire Dept In | $15,500 | 1 | 20% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $15,279 | 2 | 0% |
| Candles | $14,384 | 1 | n/a |
| North Putnam Community Schools | $14,150 | 2 | n/a |
| Reelsville Water Company Inc | $12,705 | 1 | 2% |
| Saint Mary-Of-The-Woods College | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cloverdale Lions Club | $11,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherwood Christian Church | $10,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Fuller Center for Housing of Putnam | $10,000 | 1 | 27% |
| Castlemakers Inc | $9,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Dusk to Dawn Bereavement Services | $9,070 | 1 | 34% |
| Greencastle Youth Softball Association Inc | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Community Housing | $8,516 | 1 | n/a |
| Putnam County 4-H Rabbit Club | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Reelsville Community Center Inc | $8,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Cloverdale | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| RUSSELLVILLE & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER Fire Dept INC | $7,466 | 1 | 10% |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of Putnam County Inc | $7,232 | 1 | n/a |
| Mental Health America of Putnam Co | $6,228 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Congregational Church | $6,167 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Womens Ministries Incorporated | $6,105 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($499k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Putnam County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.
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.
United Way of Putnam County IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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.
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About Putnam County Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Putnam County Community Foundation Inc give?
- Putnam County Community Foundation Inc reported 49 itemized grants totaling $1,641,969, out of $2,037,104 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Putnam County Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Putnam County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Putnam County Museum Inc ($1.0M), Friends of the Putnam County Public Library ($613k), Young Men's Christian Association of Wabash Valley Inc ($610k).
- Does Putnam County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Putnam County Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Putnam County Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc, Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Putnam County Community Foundation Inc based?
- Putnam County Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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