· Public charity
Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc
The mission of the organization is to support regional development opportunities in the 11 counties of southwest central indiana.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Bloomington And Monroe County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc named its own grantees at scale: 29 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $577,969 |
| DEVX LLC | $420,000 |
| BARR-REEVE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $400,000 |
| EAST WASHINGTON SCHOOL CORPORATION | $400,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $400,000 |
| NORTHEAST DUBOIS COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $356,955 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY | $337,000 |
| CITY OF BEDFORD | $333,294 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON | $205,000 |
| DAVIESS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $200,000 |
| LINTON-STOCKTON SCHOOL CORPORATION | $192,707 |
| Individual grant recipient | $178,934 |
| NORTH LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $175,000 |
| BLOOMFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT | $162,425 |
| MITCHELL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $161,410 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- BCBloomington Community Park And Recreation Foundation Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $247k · revenue +43%
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC3× · 2020–2022 · $180k · revenue +56%- GCGREENE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2023 · $129k · revenue +336%
Funded once
- SCSALEM COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $16k
- VUVINCENNES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $14k
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 be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
To promote the economic development of clinton county, indiana
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
The foundation was organized to provide responsible stewardship of donated gifts to provide leadership in addressing community issues and to make grants in the fields of community service, education, health, environment and the arts in the…
To promote and support economic development, growth and expansion within the wayne county, indiana area.
To mobilize people, ideas and investment to make this a community where every individual has equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity. (continued on schedule o)
To help donors improve the quality of life in parke county, indiana.
The community foundation responds to the changing needs of the community by making grants to local nonprofit organizations, awarding scholarships to help local students, working together with donors to build community endowment and…
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
To build enduring charitable resources used to positively impact our community by: serving as a partner and resource for donors, their advisors, and not-for-profit organizations; making it simple for donors to fulfill their individual…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Owen County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The University Financing Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 57 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 BROWN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL & NASHVILLE SCHOOL BUILDING CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIESS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bloomington Community Park And Recreation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RADIUS INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PAR ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COUNTY ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNCIL 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · University of Indianapolis · Duke Energy Foundation · Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc · Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Inc · Hoosier Uplands Economic Development Corporation · Cicp Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Partnership Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc
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 Regional Opportunity Initiatives 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.