· Community foundation
South Madison Community Foundation Inc
Producing positive change and lasting impact, and enhancing the quality of life for the residents of the south madison county community by attracting charitable gifts and making philanthropic gifts in response to community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $248,153 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $498,837 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,684 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENDLETON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $74,557 |
| TRI KAPPA GAMMA PI CHAPTER | $39,565 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,969 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $23,665 |
| LAPELSTONY CREEK TOWNSHIP FIRE TERRITORY | $11,080 |
| PENDLETON HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,145 |
| PENDLETON SWIM CLUB | $7,145 |
| WILLOW PLACE | $6,500 |
| MAIN STREET PENDLETON | $6,127 |
| REAL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FUSION CHEER AND DANCE BOOSTERS | $5,500 |
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 (FY22–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2019–2025 · $139k
- PFPENDLETON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH2× · 2023–2025 · $131k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH2× · 2019–2022 · $106k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $206k
- OHOne Heart Global Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +41%
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $36k
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.
Volunteer fire protection
Pendleton youth baseball and softball league that provides a safe place to play baseball and softball for pendleton, indiana and surrounding communities
To enhance community opportunity through the management of local giving and coordination of civic priorities.
Providing fire protection and emergency services to pennington, hopewell and the surrounding areas.
To inspire children to a lifelong love of reading.
To give scholarships to pendleton county students with good grades, community service, and personal achievements.
To improve and maintain health for the residents of pendleton county and the larger community of which it is a part.
To provide low cost hockey program for the local and surrounding communities.
To promote economic development in the city of danville and pittsylvania county areas for all citizens living in the piedmont area.
Producing positive change and lasting impact, and enhancing the quality of life for the residents of the south madison county community by attracting charitable gifts and making philanthropic gifts in response to community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Heart Global Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 59 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 South Madison 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.