· Private foundation
The Kirr Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Bartholomew Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Carlow University | $10,000 |
| Harvest of Hope Pantry | $5,000 |
| Our Hospice South Central Indiana | $5,000 |
| Marfa Educational Foundation | $3,000 |
| Jefferson College Historical Society | $2,000 |
| United Way of Bartholomew County | $2,000 |
| Goldwater Institute | $2,000 |
| Indiana Golf Foundation | $1,000 |
| Marfa Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Foundation for Youth | $1,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Marfa Public Library | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CUCARLOW UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +65%
- HOHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +104%
- OHOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
- CPColumbus Park Foundationone grant, 2023 · $2k
- SHSACRED HEART OF MARY PARISHone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
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.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bartholomew County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MARFA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · The Namaste Foundation Inc · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · Landmark Farm Foundation Inc · Repp Associates Foundation · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Centra Foundation Inc · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation 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 Kirr Foundation Inc 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.