· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +100%
Funded once
- SCSALEM COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $16k
- VUVINCENNES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $14k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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