· Private foundation
The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k22 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $809k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc | $100,000 |
| Ellettsville Volunteer Fire Department | $50,000 |
| Pantry 279 Inc | $41,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,490 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| People & Animal Learning Services (PALS) | $31,309 |
| Stone Belt Arc Inc | $30,651 |
| Community Foundation Partnership Inc | $30,000 |
| Monroe County 4-H Swine Club | $25,000 |
| Hoosier Hills Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Center for Sustainable Living | $24,000 |
| Kingsway Community Care Center Inc | $22,500 |
| Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation | $21,560 |
| Hope Resource Center | $21,026 |
| Edgewood High School Band | $20,035 |
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, $931k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 25 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- EVELLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE7× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +39% · 68% of their budget
- NHNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +154%
- LCLAWRENCE COUNTY CANCER PATIENT SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +232% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation Bloomington Monroe Countyone grant, 2017 · $100k
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +208%
- BPBloomfield Park Board CO Bloomfield Town Councilone grant, 2017 · $53k
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.
Provide resources for low income clients.
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
Provide child care and supporting family services to families in union county, indiana.
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monroe County Professinal Firefight. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ELLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COUNTY CANCER PATIENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Pantry 279 Inc ↗
- Who funds TULIP TREE HEALTH SERVICES OF GIBSO ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds STONE BELT ARC INC ↗
- Who funds AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DirectEmployers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONE CITY ALLIANCE FOR RECOVERY & HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARTINSVILLE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Bloomington Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE SERVICES OF WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST ↗
- Who funds COURAGE TO CHANGE SOBER LIVING ↗
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: Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · United Way of South Central Indiana · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation Partnership Inc · Curry Family Foundation Inc · Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc · Brown County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Family 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 Smithville Charitable 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.
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