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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.

$844k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$411kRecreation & Sports$314kHealth$137kPublic Benefit$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$59kHuman Services$56kArts & Culture$51kCommunity Improvement$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $429,859, the rows itemized in this filing. The $844,485 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $414,626 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 $10k17 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
$8,996
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENESIS PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS$110,589
MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION$53,365
SOUTH RIPLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION$27,510
JAC CEN DEL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$23,972
BATESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION$20,509
SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA YMCA INC$18,307
CREATE FOUNDATION INC$15,200
NATIONAL MUZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOC$14,100
OLDENBURG ACADEMY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION$12,462
SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION$10,150
MILAN COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RELIEF$9,773
BATESVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION$9,691
JAC-CEN-DEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION$9,460
MILAN COMMUNITY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$8,996
ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT GROUPS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC$8,875
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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SERVANTS AT WORK INC: $7k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA YMCA INC: $18k → 12%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $10k → 12%SO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET: $8k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA YMCA INC: $7k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA YMCA INC: $5k → 12%BATESVILLE AREA RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$591k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$1.1M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-15%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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 ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    CREATE Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +134%
  • SI
    Southeast Indiana Health Center Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CA
    CITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · 87% of their budget
  • MS
    MAIN STREET VERSAILLES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AL
    American Legion Post #267
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -41%
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
Black Township Fire & Rescue

To providefire & emergency protection to area residence

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2
Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department of Starke County Indiana

Volunteer fire department

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3
Raleigh Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and EMS services to all or part of 5 townships in Rush Co. IN

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4
Marshall Volunteer Fire Department

Public fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Smith Township Vol Fire Dept

Fire protection

—
6
Driftwood Twp Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection and emergency se

Public Safety & Disaster
7
The Wadesville Center Township Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Milford Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide assistance to fire departments

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9
New Martinsville Volunteer Fire Dept

To protect property and lives of our community.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Baskett Community Fire Department

Volunteer fire department serving the baskett, ky area.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
St Henry Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire deprtment services for st henry, in & surrounding area

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12
New Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

To provide fire protection and fire prevention services for the boundaries of new washington township in indiana

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Indiana Economic Opportunity Corporation; the most unlike its peers is So Loved Ripley County Foster Closet. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
16/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $163,972 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCBatesville Comm School Corp: $140,596 · OtherBatesville Comm School CorpRipley County Indiana: $93,573 · OtherRipley County IndianaSOUTH RIPLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP: $42,710 · OtherALZHEIMERS SUPPORT GROUPS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC: $34,942 · OtherMILAN COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $33,192 · OtherNEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC: $31,685 · Other+38 more: $385,454 · Other+38 moreCITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCITIZENS AQUATIC CE…NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION: $93,635 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL MUZZZLE LO…MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,365 · HealthMARGARET …Southeast Indiana Health Center Inc: $50,205 · HealthSoutheast…LIONS CAMP PROJECT DISTRICT 25-F INC: $9,461 · HealthLIONS CAM…MARGARET MARY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $8,767 · HealthMARGARET …GENESIS PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS: $110,589 · Youth DevelopmentCREATE Foundation Inc: $92,630 · PhilanthropyOSGOOD LIONS FOUNDATION: $5,676 · PhilanthropyRIPLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $30,357 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE INC: $9,800 · Human ServicesSO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET: $7,500 · Human ServicesServants at Work Inc: $7,392 · Human ServicesBatesville Area Resource Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY: $25,600 · Arts & CultureGIBSON THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMilan 54 Inc: $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$926,124Recreation & Sports$293,635Health$141,798Youth Development$110,589Philanthropy$103,306Human Services$60,049Arts & Culture$42,100

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 budgetCITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetGENESIS PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS: $110,589 over 1y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION: $93,635 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCREATE Foundation Inc: $92,630 over 9y, 18% of budgetMARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,365 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC: $31,685 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $30,357 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY: $25,600 over 3y, 11% of budgetBATESVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSO: $16,991 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetOsgood Volunteer Fire department: $15,750 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC: $12,608 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican Legion Post #267: $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetBATESVILLE COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGIBSON THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetBatesville Area Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBatesville Community Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $9,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIONS CAMP PROJECT DISTRICT 25-F INC: $9,461 over 1y, 29% of budgetMARGARET MARY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $8,767 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetServants at Work Inc: $7,392 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW MARION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Community Volunteer Fire Dept: $5,200 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBATESVILLE YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRIPLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WAR: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFOOD & GROWERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% 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 CITIZENS AQUATIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CREATE Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Indiana Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY ↗
  • Who funds BATESVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSO ↗
  • 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BATESVILLE COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIBSON THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Batesville Area Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds Batesville Community Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIONS CAMP PROJECT DISTRICT 25-F INC ↗
  • Who funds MARGARET MARY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET ↗

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.

Civista Charitable Fo…John A Hillenbrand Fo…The Frederick W and J…Lilly Endowment IncWilliam A & Marth H H…Franklin County Commu…University of Indiana…Baxter International …Duke Energy FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Civista Charitable Foundation Fka Ucb Charitable FoundationIN21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ripley County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ripley 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ripley County Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ripley County Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 63 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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