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The Conover Foundation Inc Agt
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE CONOVER FOUNDATION INC AGT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $170,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $213,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. Paul's Christian Academy | $20,000 |
| Humane Society of Johnson County | $15,000 |
| The Branch of Nashville | $15,000 |
| Town of Edinburgh (Plaza Fund) | $14,000 |
| Bartholomew County Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Johnson County Museum (Historical Society Inc.) | $8,100 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety | $8,000 |
| Ecumenical Assembly of Bartholomew County Churches | $6,000 |
| Salvation Army | $6,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Johnson County | $6,000 |
| Edinburgh Community High School (Band trip to Chicago) | $5,000 |
| Edinburgh Ministerial Association | $5,000 |
| Franklin Symphonic Council | $5,000 |
| Hope Clinic for Women | $5,000 |
| New Song Mission Inc. | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBartholomew County Humane Society Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +52%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +60%
- TBTHE BRANCH OF NASHVILLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +560%
Funded once
- WSWHO SO EVER WILL COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- MFMIDTOWN FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- MJMT JULIET POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
The organization provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis situations.
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
To provide a christ centered shelter to meet basic needs of housing, clothing, food, emotional and spirtitual needs.
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
First choice for women exists to share the grace and truth of jesus christ and uphold the sanctity of human life while serving those facing unplanned pregnancies, promoting premarital sexual abstinence, and caring for those hurt by…
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
Hfh is a christian non-profit organization working towards the elimination of poverty by making decent shelter available. orange county, indiana hfh provides residential housing for low income families who have been residents of orange…
The interchurch food pantry works to alleviate hunger in johnson county. there are two primary program services, food distribution and food rescue.
The mission of the hopkins county humane society is to ensure the humane and compassionate treatment of all animals.
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Curepsp 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 43 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 63 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BRANCH OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOM FAMILY DESIGNS ↗
- Who funds SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WHO SO EVER WILL COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
- Who funds NEW SONG MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILL RACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER - NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds ANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Johnson County Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation
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 Conover Foundation Inc Agt 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.
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.
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