How much did THE AHRENDTS-COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE AHRENDTS-COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

roadchildren'snorthkidsministriesvalley

2019

policeministriesvalley

2020

grace springshancock foodfood pantry

2021

—

2022

ministries

2023

religiouscollectivegreater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

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

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHARITY WATER$433,333
MAGNIFY COLLECTIVE$274,010
YOUR MOVE COLLECTIVE INC$100,000
ST CATHERINE CHURCH$60,000
FLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY$60,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$50,000
TURNING POINT FOR GOD$50,000
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.6M · 36 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.6M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

-13%

Still filing today

47%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPhilanthropyReligionEducationHealthArts & CultureOther

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 INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +36%
IT
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES
7× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +37%
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
2× · 2021–2022 · $375k · revenue +179%

Funded once

UN
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $500k
SD
SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND
one grant, 2020 · $100k
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA
one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

International Community Health Services

Provide health services to improve the health of asian pacific islander and other communities.

Health

Impact Charitable

Impact charitable unites catalytic philanthropists with community partners, financial institutions, foundations, social enterprises, and governmental bodies. as an impact capital catalyst, impact charitable unlocks and accelerates capital…

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Community Partners International

Empower vulnerable communities in asia to thrive through equitable access to essential health, humanitarian, and sustainable development services.

Human Services

Handicap International

International

People Incorporated

Transform the health of communities through innovative solutions.

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Habitat for Humanity Capital Region

Bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter

The Vermont Community Foundation

Inspiring giving and bringing together people and resources to make a difference.

Philanthropy

Common Impact Inc

Common impact builds the capacity of high performing nonprofit organizations, enabling them to scale proven models of social impact. we partner with companies to engage their most strategic philanthropic asset, their people, in targeted…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Hancock and the most unlike its peers is North Point Productions 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,526

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.

05the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/36

Grantees still filing

26/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,259,214Human Services$2,202,650Religion$1,440,000Philanthropy$554,000Youth Development$232,169Education$188,500Food & Nutrition$181,100

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Central Indiana IncIN19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Good360 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +52% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 350979327 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HANCOCK COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE AHRENDTS-COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation?

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THE AHRENDTS-COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ahrendts-Couch Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph