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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 FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $1,641,969, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,037,104 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $395,135 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $551k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
$17,861
Median grant
2
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF THE WABASH VALLEY INC$211,771
CITY OF GREENCASTLE$169,650
PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC$126,400
FRIENDS OF THE PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$120,353
BEYOND HOMELESS INC$79,695
CLOVERDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$69,560
PUTNAM COUNTY HOSPITAL$64,516
FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF WEST CENTRAL INDIANA$58,527
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$51,392
CUMMINS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEMS$51,000
CLOVERDALE COMMUNITY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$37,400
FRIENDS OF THE PARK ASSOCIATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC$35,119
HUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY$32,580
GREENCASTLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION$27,865
GREENCASTLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$27,616
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LAKELAND CENTER INC: $18k → 5%LAKELAND CENTER: $8k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS- IN: $10k → 16%HOPE HAVEN HORSE FARM: $6k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS- IN: $6k → 16%LAKELAND CENTER: $5k → 5%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $20k → 10%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $6k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS INC: $80k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS INC: $45k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $31k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS INC: $30k → 10%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $26k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE: $25k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $22k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS INC: $20k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $19k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $19k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS: $18k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $17k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS INC: $9k → 10%PUTNAM COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8k → 10%ASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $7k → 10%ASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT CENTER: $6k → 10%ASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $6k → 10%ASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT CENTER: $5k → 10%BEYOND HOMELESS: $5k → 10%OPPORTUNITY HOUSING OF PUTNAM CO: $5k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 59 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
43

Total granted

$6.5M
$643k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

39%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PC
    PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +71% · 87% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $610k · revenue +11%
  • DePauw University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $319k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $98k
  • CI
    CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • PC
    PUTNAM COUNTY KIDS COUNT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $38k
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
Putnam County Chamber of Commerce

To promote the putnam county area as well as provide information on businesses in putnam county to other businesses and to the public.

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2
Putnam County Historical Society

Museum

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3
Putnam County Agricultural and Industrial Fair Inc

Promote agriculture and industry in putnam county.

Public Benefit
4
Putnam County Housing Corporation

To provide safe, decent and affordable housing to putnam county residents.

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5
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.

Philanthropy
6
Greencastleputnam Co Developmt Cntr Inc

Economic development

Community Improvement
7
Putnam County Historical Society

Collect, preserve, and display putnam county historical items. educate public and disseminate information regarding putnam county history.

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8
Putnam Ems Ambulance Service Inc

Responding to medical calls. providing mutual aid to surrounding towns.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Opportunity Housing Inc of Putnam County

Provide low cost housing

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10
Progressive Housing of Putnam County Inc

The corporation maintains residential living facilities for developmentally disabled citizens. all funds received are used to operate and maintain these facilities.

Human Services
11
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
12
Clay Township Independent Volunteer

Provide fire protection for residents of clay township in bartholomew county indiana

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Putnam County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Recovery Raw Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 112 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $613,282 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC: $610,066 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INCPUTNAM COUNTY HOSPITAL: $356,466 · OtherPUTNAM COUNTY HOSPITALCITY OF GOSHEN PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $169,650 · Other+87 more: $2,928,157 · Other+87 morePUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $1,048,900 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM COUNTY MU…PUTNAM COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC: $45,324 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDePauw University: $318,628 · EducationDePauw Uni…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $253,959 · EducationIVY TECH F…PUTNAM COUNTY COALITION FOR EDUCATION AND THE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $60,750 · EducationPUTNAM COU…ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $28,026 · Education+2 more: $22,500 · EducationBEYOND HOMELESS INC: $206,859 · Human ServicesPUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $141,388 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $52,015 · Human ServicesLAKELAND CENTER INC: $41,456 · Human ServicesASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $23,882 · Human Services+1 more: $15,279 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $202,482 · AnimalsPUTNAM COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $142,731 · Crime & LegalMARY ALLISON CHILDREN'S HOME: $55,511 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $85,133 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE PARK ASSOCIATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $61,272 · PhilanthropyPUTNAM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,739 · Philanthropy
Other$4,677,621Arts & Culture$1,114,224Education$683,863Human Services$480,879Animals$202,482Crime & Legal$198,242Philanthropy$162,144

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 budgetPUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $1,048,900 over 9y, 87% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC: $610,066 over 3y, 12% of budgetDePauw University: $318,628 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $253,959 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBEYOND HOMELESS INC: $206,859 over 7y, 77% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $202,482 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetGREENCASTLEPUTNAM CO DEVELOPMT CNTR INC: $145,203 over 6y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $143,008 over 4y, 27% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $142,731 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC: $141,388 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $85,133 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARK ASSOCIATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC: $61,272 over 2y, 14% of budgetMARY ALLISON CHILDREN'S HOME: $55,511 over 6y, 31% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $52,015 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCUMMINS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY FAIR & 4-H CLUB ASSN: $47,658 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC: $45,324 over 4y, 13% of budgetLAKELAND CENTER INC: $41,456 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCLOVERDALE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC: $31,610 over 2y, 16% of budgetROCKFORD UNIVERSITY: $28,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMM INC: $25,861 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetASBURY TOWERS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $23,882 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY: $22,347 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY: $20,700 over 2y, 17% of budgetConstellation Stage & Screen Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,739 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFillmore Community Vol Fire Dept In: $15,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,279 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREELSVILLE WATER COMPANY INC: $12,705 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF PUTNAM: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUSK TO DAWN BEREAVEMENT SERVICES: $9,070 over 1y, 34% of budgetRUSSELLVILLE & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER Fire Dept INC: $7,466 over 1y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMENS MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $6,105 over 1y, 1.5% 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 PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENCASTLEPUTNAM CO DEVELOPMT CNTR INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARK ASSOCIATION OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY COALITION FOR EDUCATION AND THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARY ALLISON CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CUMMINS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAIR & 4-H CLUB ASSN ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKELAND CENTER 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.

United Way of Putnam …United Way of Central…Wabash Valley Communi…Lilly Endowment IncDuke Energy FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
United Way of Putnam County IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Putnam County Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Putnam County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Putnam County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 112 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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