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Ripley County Community Foundation Inc
We serve ripley county by growing and sustaining a culture of giving and investing resources to meet community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $390,848 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $761,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $370,569 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC | $200,000 |
| JAC CEN DEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BATESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $23,500 |
| MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MUZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOC | $14,000 |
| CREATE FOUNDATION INC | $10,190 |
| KIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY INC | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SUPPORT GROUPS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA | $8,875 |
| BATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC | $7,608 |
| SERVANTS AT WORK INC | $7,392 |
| MILAN COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RELIEF | $6,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,400 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| OSGOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- NMNATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +6%
- CFCREATE Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +134%
- SISoutheast Indiana Health Center Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MSMAIN STREET VERSAILLES INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JSJAC-CEN-DEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ALAmerican Legion Post #267one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -41%
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.
Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN
Provide a funding mechanism to enhance Historic Downtown Batesville
Volunteer firefighter association
Volunteer fire department
Perform life saving measures for Prairie Township and the Town of Brookston, IN
Provide fire and emt service to marion township, decatur county, indiana
To promote community development with emphasis on business development and growth in the batesville, arkansas economic area
Volunteer fire department serving the baskett, ky area.
Fire protection
Public fire protection
To providefire & emergency protection to area residence
The town of batavia fire department, inc. strives for excellence in fire suppression, prevention, rescue and other emergency support services through training and education for the protection of our members, neighbors and guests.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ripley County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Batesville Main Street 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 CITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeast Indiana Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Osgood Volunteer Fire department ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post #267 ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BATESVILLE COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Batesville Community Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Batesville Area Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds GIBSON THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS CAMP PROJECT DISTRICT 25-F INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET MARY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds BATESVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSO ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Delaware Community Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
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: Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable Foundation · John A Hillenbrand Foundation Inc · The Frederick W and Jolene Edmunds Rockwood Family Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation · Franklin County Community Foundation Inc · University of Indianapolis · Baxter International Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ripley County Community Foundation 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.
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