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The Benjamin and Anna Bosse Scholarship Fund at a glance

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The Benjamin and Anna Bosse Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$189k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$923kArts & Culture$75kCommunity Improvement$50kReligion$22kEnvironment$7kHealth$5kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$97,500
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE$52,500
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$13,000
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$6,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
EVANSVILLE SYMPHONIC BAND$4,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD OF EVANSVILLE$3,600
WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC$3,500
VANDERBURGH HUMANE SOCIETY INC$2,200
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 15%IUPUI: $1k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $98k → 18%INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $61k → 19%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%HAYNIE'S CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSN: $4k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $39k → 18%INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 19%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD OF EVANSVILLE: $4k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $32k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 19%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD OF EVANSVILLE: $4k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $28k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%HAYNIE'S CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSN: $4k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $28k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%HAYNIE'S CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSN: $3k → 15%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $24k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 19%E'VILLE VANDERBURGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 15%HAYNIE'S CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSN: $3k → 15%HAYNIE'S CORNER ART DISTRICT ASSN: $2k → 15%HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUMENTAL: $4k → 15%ST MARY'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 15%VANN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC: $1k → 15%THE ARTS COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN: $11k → 15%WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVANSVILLE: $5k → 15%THE ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 15%THE ARTS COUNCIL: $4k → 15%WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $4k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $4k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $4k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $4k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $4k → 15%VANDERBURGH HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 15%WEST SIDE NUT CLUB: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $7k → 15%PARKSFEST MUSIC FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $1k → 15%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+98%

Still filing today

29%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $283k · revenue +5%
  • DePauw University
    3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • WT
    WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • WS
    WEST SIDE NUT CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +190%
  • TA
    THE ARTS COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
  • WC
    Wabash Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +45%
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
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
4
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
5
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
Indiana University Alumni Association Inc

The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…

—
9
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

To provide our students with the world's best undergraduate education in engineering, mathematics, and science in an environment of individual attention and support.

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11
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Neighborhoods of Evansville 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

9 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. 9 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University School of Medicine: $345,250 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $252,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY+17 more: $148,000 · Other+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $283,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLEDePauw University: $20,000 · EducationDePauw University+2 more: $9,250 · EducationWEST SIDE NUT CLUB INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED NEIGHBORHOODS OF EVANSVILLE INC: $7,200 · EnvironmentVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,200 · Animals
Other$745,250Education$312,250Community Improvement$50,000Environment$7,200Animals$2,200

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $283,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE NUT CLUB INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetDePauw University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOODS OF EVANSVILLE INC: $7,200 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWabash College: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE NUT CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEIGHBORHOODS OF EVANSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wabash College ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds VANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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.

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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 Benjamin and Anna Bosse Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Benjamin and Anna Bosse Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 26 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-PF 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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