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The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$172kEducation$160kFood & Nutrition$104kYouth Development$97kHuman Services$95kAnimals$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kEnvironment$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GATHERING CHURCH$18,000
WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC$12,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$12,000
YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC$10,000
EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$9,000
EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC$8,000
TRI STATE FOOD BANK INC$7,500
LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDRENS MUSEUM$7,000
EVSC FOUNDATION INC$5,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN$5,000
PARENTING TIME CENTER$5,000
DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE INC$5,000
ARK INC$5,000
PATCHWORK CENTRAL$5,000
EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $7k → 15%HOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC: $4k → 15%ALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC: $3k → 15%UNITED METHODIST YOUTH HOME INC: $2k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $12k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $12k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $12k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $8k → 15%LAMPION CENTER INC: $8k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $5k → 15%YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $10k → 15%YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $3k → 15%EVANSVILLE ARC INC: $8k → 15%AURORA INC: $5k → 15%EVANSVILLE ARC INC: $4k → 15%AURORA INC: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$602k · 25 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
21

Total granted

$602k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

84%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue +3%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +113%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WN
    Wesselman Nature Society Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $29k · revenue 0%
  • EZ
    EVANSVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +162%

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.

1
Evansville Regional Economic Partnership Foundation

Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.

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2
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

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

Arts & Culture
3
Evansville Sports Corporation

To help enhance southwestern indiana's culture, image, economy & quality of life through the attraction, promotion and development of family oriented and national sporting events.

Community Improvement
4
For Evansville Inc

We believe citywide flourishing happens when every person in the city flourishes, and we pursue the flourishing of every person by bringing people together to solve our citys (Evansville, IN) most pressing needs.

Religion
5
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
6
Evanston Animal Shelter Association

The evanston animal shelter and adoption center gives companion animals the best chance at the life they deserve through rehabilitation, foster care, adoption and community support that keeps pets with the people who love them.

Animals
7
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
8
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
9
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage, support and aid the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, its staff, and its programs.

Education
10
Hope of Evansville Inc

To provide counseling and assisstance with housing needs for clients located in the evansville, in area under guidelines established by the housing and urban development provisions.

Housing & Shelter
11
Evansville African American Museum

The museum is dedicated to preserving historical real estate and artifacts for public viewing and education.

Arts & Culture
12
Community Action Program of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Inc

The organization provides financial assistance and social services to low-income and under privileged families and children in evansville, indiana and the vanderburgh, posey and gibson county areas. the mission of the community action…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parenting Time Center 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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr16%10%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr18%39%35–55yr20%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr18%53%35–55yr20%19%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
9%
87/917

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
20/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $77,500 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANKBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC — $36,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INCIMPACT EVANSVILLE INC — $26,900 · OtherIMPACT EVANSVILLE INCWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $25,000 · OtherWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INCTHE GATHERING CHURCH — $18,000 · OtherPARENTING TIME CENTER INC — $12,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN — $12,000 · OtherJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc — $18,000 · OtherEVSC FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · Other+16 more — $109,334 · Other+16 moreArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of So…EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL — $33,000 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE PHILHAR…LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureLOUIS J KOCH FAMIL…+2 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE — $72,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF E…Indiana University Foundation — $20,000 · EducationIndiana Univers…SIGNATURE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationSIGNATURE SCHOO…+1 more — $3,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $36,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE CHRI…YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVANSVI…EVANSVILLE ARC INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE ARC …ALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesALBION FELLOWS …LAMPION CENTER INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesLAMPION CENTER …CARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesCARVER COMMUNIT…AURORA INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesAURORA INCHOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · AnimalsEVANSVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · AnimalsYOUTH FIRST — $28,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $11,000 · HealthCHEMO BUDDIES — $4,000 · HealthWesselman Nature Society Inc — $29,000 · Environment
Other$351,234Arts & Culture$133,000Education$115,500Human Services$111,500Animals$50,000Health$43,000Environment$29,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE — $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC — $36,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL — $33,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWesselman Nature Society Inc — $29,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetYOUTH FIRST — $28,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT EVANSVILLE INC — $26,900 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEVANSVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNATURE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE ARC INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTING TIME CENTER INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBION FELLOWS BACON CENTER INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPatchwork Central Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $8,334 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAMPION CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARVER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAURORA INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHEMO BUDDIES — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD AND PEACE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIGNATURE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Methodist Youth Home Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Cecil a and Mabel Len…Evansville Endowment …Koch Foundation IncCenterpoint Energy Fo…Welborn Baptist Found…James R Duncan Trust …Holiday Management Fo…Baird Foundation IncGerling Family Founda…Bussing-Koch Foundati…West Side Nut Club Inc
Community Foundation Alliance IncIN68.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third · Holiday Management Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc · West Side Nut Club 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 Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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