· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 SWIM CLUB | $7,145 |
| PENDLETON HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,145 |
| WILLOW PLACE | $6,500 |
| MAIN STREET PENDLETON | $6,127 |
| REAL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FUSION CHEER AND DANCE BOOSTERS | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Volunteer fire protection
To give scholarships to pendleton county students with good grades, community service, and personal achievements.
Pendleton youth baseball and softball league that provides a safe place to play baseball and softball for pendleton, indiana and surrounding communities
To inspire children to a lifelong love of reading.
To provide low cost hockey program for the local and surrounding communities.
Provide educational and other support to students enrolled in the pellston public schools.
To enhance community opportunity through the management of local giving and coordination of civic priorities.
To provide high-quality care, as affordably as possible, for infants, todllers and preschollers, in a safe, nurturing and educational environment to enhance the economic vitaily of pendleton and surrounding rural communities.
Bridging the gap between a dream and reality while preparing our students to be leaders of tomorrow.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 59 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization South Madison Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Madison Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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