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· Public charity

The Arts Federation Inc

Our mission: grow the arts: access, experience, and opportunityour vision: all individuals and communities will experience the vitality of the arts

$484k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$94kEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$56kEnvironment$41kFood & Nutrition$17k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $463,348, the rows itemized in this filing. The $483,748 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,400 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 $10k6 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
$11,660
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION$70,000
FRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY$59,905
MONON CIVIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY$58,010
TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$57,085
LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$16,761
ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE$15,637
LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC$15,116
CIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC$14,629
ROBERT AND ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART$14,141
KOKOMO PARK BAND$12,628
KOKOMO CIVIC THEATRE INC$12,364
KOKOMO SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC$11,660
BACH CHORALE SINGERS INC$11,537
DELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC$11,308
PRAIRIE PRESERVATION GUILD$11,264
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 (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ATTICA MAIN STREET: $5k → 12%Duncan Hall: $35k → 19%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 37 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
19

Total granted

$3.5M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+29%

Still filing today

81%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SA
    SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $372k · revenue +12% · 70% of their budget
  • TC
    TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +5%
  • DO
    DELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $159k · revenue +98% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • IA
    ILLIANA ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TD
    THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +209% · 52% of their budget
  • MC
    Montgomery County Cultural
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
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
Arts Council of Thayer County

Public arts and entertainment

Arts & Culture
2
Lake Benton Opera House Inc

The Lake Benton Opera House, one of the premiere historic buildings in southwest Minnesota. Home to an active community theatre, the Opera House has begun its second century in our community.

Arts & Culture
3
Lake County Civic Center Assoc Inc

Promote the past, present, and future of leadville and lake county

Arts & Culture
4
Indiana Wind Symphony Inc

The presentation of artistic performances of significant music for band and wind ensemble to the entire Central Indiana Community.

Arts & Culture
5
Bucks County Performing Arts Center

Performing arts concerts and arts in education

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6
Pipestone Performing Arts Center

Provide a theatre of live music and events!

Arts & Culture
7
St Charles Arts Council

To support the arts and cultural activities in st charles il

Arts & Culture
8
Morton Theatre Corporation

To preserve one of the community's important historic legacies

Arts & Culture
9
Lewis & Clark Theatre Company Inc

Lewis & clark theatre company inc provided arts and entertainment as well as a facility for the production of theatrical performances and other events in the community

—
10
The Chamber Music Society of Ohio

Preserving the Presentation of Chamber Music

Arts & Culture
11
Classic Arts Programs Inc

Our mission is to provide a variety of creative collaborative experiences that allow children and adults in Kosciusko County the opportunity to discover develop and share their musical and artistic gifts.

Arts & Culture
12
Wabash Valley Arts Council

Promotion of arts in wabash county, il

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delphi Opera House Inc; the most unlike its peers is L&a Park Foundation Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 56 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA: $372,398 · Arts & CultureSONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANAMonon Civic Preservation Society: $331,510 · Arts & CultureMonon Civic Preservation SocietyTIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $216,176 · Arts & CultureTIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONTHE LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC: $168,806 · Arts & CultureTHE LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INCDELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC: $158,874 · Arts & CultureDELPHI OPERA HOUSE INCROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INC: $138,170 · Arts & CultureROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INCCIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE: $101,256 · Arts & CultureART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC: $92,465 · Arts & CultureLong Center Inc Long Center for the Performing: $92,116 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $813,673 · Arts & Culture+17 moreCARROLL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $246,750 · OtherCARROLL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC…FRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $152,601 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBL…CARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE CANAL: $113,218 · OtherCARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE …FLORA COMMUNITY CLUB: $90,850 · OtherFLORA COMMUNITY CLUBILLIANA ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · OtherILLIANA ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIA…KOKOMO PARK BAND INC: $60,013 · OtherKOKOMO PARK BAND INCILLIANA ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Other+15 more: $186,160 · Other+15 moreVEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC: $130,000 · Community ImprovementFLORA COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $80,707 · Community ImprovementTHOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesATTICA MAIN STREET INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF WEST LAFAYETTE INC: $13,784 · EducationWabash College: $5,000 · EducationL&A Park Foundation Inc: $6,400 · Recreation & SportsTipton County Pork Festival Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,485,444Other$974,592Community Improvement$210,707Human Services$40,000Education$18,784Recreation & Sports$11,400

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 budgetSONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA: $372,398 over 4y, 70% of budgetMonon Civic Preservation Society: $331,510 over 6y, 79% of budgetTIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $216,176 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC: $168,806 over 7y, 14% of budgetDELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC: $158,874 over 6y, 33% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $152,601 over 5y, 99% of budgetROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INC: $138,170 over 9y, 21% of budgetVEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC: $130,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE CANAL: $113,218 over 3y, 17% of budgetCIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE: $101,256 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC: $92,465 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetLong Center Inc Long Center for the Performing: $92,116 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFLORA COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $80,707 over 2y, 53% of budgetLAFAYETTE CITIZENS BAND INC: $71,021 over 7y, 18% of budgetTHE BACH CHORALE SINGERS INC: $69,729 over 6y, 12% of budgetINDIANA FIDDLERS GATHERING INC: $67,899 over 6y, 20% of budgetPRAIRIE PRESERVATION GUILD LTD: $66,741 over 6y, 15% of budgetON-STAGE FOUNDATION INC: $65,955 over 3y, 19% of budgetKOKOMO SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC: $62,077 over 6y, 15% of budgetKOKOMO CIVIC THEATRE INC: $60,985 over 6y, 23% of budgetKOKOMO PARK BAND INC: $60,013 over 6y, 16% of budgetPRAIRIE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $55,015 over 6y, 100% of budgetDELPHI PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $51,127 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Museums at Prophetstown Inc: $49,054 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE RALPH & LILIAN FENDIG SUMMER THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC: $39,236 over 3y, 27% of budgetKOKOMO COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC: $36,257 over 4y, 31% of budgetTHOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCASS COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $31,757 over 4y, 41% of budgetATHENS OF INDIANA ARTS STUDIOS & GALLERY INC: $26,362 over 2y, 24% of budgetWABASH VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $25,754 over 3y, 25% of budgetCURTAIN CALL INC: $17,478 over 2y, 11% of budgetL&A Park Foundation Inc: $6,400 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY CO CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $6,053 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWabash College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTipton County Pork Festival Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 58% 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 SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds Monon Civic Preservation Society ↗
  • Who funds TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds DELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INC ↗
  • Who funds VEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE CANAL ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
  • Who funds ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Long Center Inc Long Center for the Performing ↗
  • Who funds FLORA COMMUNITY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE CITIZENS BAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BACH CHORALE SINGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA FIDDLERS GATHERING INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE PRESERVATION GUILD LTD ↗
  • Who funds ON-STAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KOKOMO SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds KOKOMO CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds KOKOMO PARK BAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds DELPHI PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Museums at Prophetstown Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RALPH & LILIAN FENDIG SUMMER THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds KOKOMO COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds CASS COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS OF INDIANA ARTS STUDIOS & GALLERY INC ↗
  • Who funds WABASH VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Adams Mill Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Greater Lafayette Com…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Sia Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Howard CountyIN40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Howard County · Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 The Arts Federation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arts Federation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    6report 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.

    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 56 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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