· Community foundation
Putnam County Community Foundation Inc
The putnam county community foundation partners with those who give to enrich the quality of life and strengthen community for this and future generations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of PUTNAM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’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 41 grants below total $1,395,456 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,596,456 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $201,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $497k
- $250k+1 grant · $356k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE WABASH VALLEY INC | $356,295 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC | $109,274 |
| CITY OF GREENCASTLE | $97,685 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $67,822 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION TERRE HAUTEGREENCASTLE | $66,986 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $55,167 |
| IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,055 |
| HERITAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY | $50,000 |
| GREENCASTLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $47,750 |
| BEYOND HOMELESS INC | $44,700 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY HOSPITAL | $37,017 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC | $30,749 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY | $29,289 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $25,695 |
| GREENCASTLE ALUMNI DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS INC | $24,127 |
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 (FY17–24, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
- PCPUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $923k · revenue +71% · 87% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC2× · 2022–2024 · $398k · revenue +11%
DePauw University3× · 2020–2024 · $267k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CICENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
- PCPUTNAM COUNTY KIDS COUNT INCone grant, 2019 · $38k
- TOTOWN OF ROACHDALEone grant, 2018 · $27k
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.
To promote the putnam county area as well as provide information on businesses in putnam county to other businesses and to the public.
The putnam county community foundation partners with those who give to enrich the quality of life and strengthen community for this and future generations.
Museum
Promote agriculture and industry in putnam county.
To provide safe, decent and affordable housing to putnam county residents.
Collect, preserve, and display putnam county historical items. educate public and disseminate information regarding putnam county history.
Provide low cost housing
The putnam county chamber of commerce, inc. is organized to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the putnam county area so that its citizens and all areas of the business community shall prosper. all necessary means of promotion…
The mission of putnam land conservancy, inc. (plc) is to conserve land and water for people and wildlife. the mission is accomplished by fee ownership, conservation easements or facilitatng public ownership of conservation lands. managmnt…
Provide fire protection for residents of clay township in bartholomew county indiana
To advance, encourage, and promote the industrial economic, commercial, and civic developments of putnam county by acting as the designated agency of putnam county for the industrial, commercial, distribution, and research development in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Putnam County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Recovery Raw 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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
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 103 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 PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PUTNAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENCASTLEPUTNAM CO DEVELOPMT CNTR INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY COALITION FOR EDUCATION AND THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARY ALLISON CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAIR & 4-H CLUB ASSN ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RAW INC ↗
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: United Way of Putnam County Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Putnam County Community 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
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.