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The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$12,000
WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC$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
VANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC$5,000
PATCHWORK CENTRAL$5,000
PARENTING TIME CENTER$5,000
ARK INC$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN$5,000
AURORA INC$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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
    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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc; 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.
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 50 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 0.2% 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
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.

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 …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

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 Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third. 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%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
    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 50 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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