· Private foundation
The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $370k
- $250k+2 grants · $707k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITY WATER | $433,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $274,010 |
| YOUR MOVE COLLECTIVE INC | $100,000 |
| FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY | $60,000 |
| ST CATHERINE CHURCH | $60,000 |
| TURNING POINT FOR GOD | $50,000 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| FAMILY HOPE INC | $40,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $40,000 |
| LOVE INCORPORATED OF GREATER HANCOCK COUNTY | $35,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $25,000 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $24,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES - FISCAL AGENT | $15,000 |
| ROYAL FAMILY KIDS | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($9.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($1.8M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 18 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
CHARITY GLOBAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +36%- ITIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +40%
- FPFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $465k · revenue +144%
Funded once
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -74%- SDSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +8%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 91 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 CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH POINT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Hancock County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF GREATER HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Oroville Hope Center ↗
- Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · GiveClear Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.