· Public charity
The Arts Federation Inc
Our mission: grow the arts: access, experience, and opportunityour vision: all individuals and communities will experience the vitality of the arts
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.
The 23 grants below total $463,348 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $483,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,400 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 $10k6 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $59,905 |
| MONON CIVIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $58,010 |
| TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $57,085 |
| LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $16,761 |
| ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE | $15,637 |
| LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC | $15,116 |
| CIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC | $14,629 |
| ROBERT AND ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART | $14,141 |
| KOKOMO PARK BAND | $12,628 |
| KOKOMO CIVIC THEATRE INC | $12,364 |
| KOKOMO SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC | $11,660 |
| BACH CHORALE SINGERS INC | $11,537 |
| DELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC | $11,308 |
| PRAIRIE PRESERVATION GUILD | $11,264 |
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 (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SASONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA4× · 2020–2024 · $372k · revenue +12% · 70% of their budget
- TCTIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +5%
- DODELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $159k · revenue +98% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- IAILLIANA ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TDTHOMAS DUNCAN HALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +209% · 52% of their budget
- MCMontgomery County Culturalone grant, 2017 · $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.
Public arts and entertainment
Educate, present & promote the arts
Promote the past, present, and future of leadville and lake county
The presentation of artistic performances of significant music for band and wind ensemble to the entire Central Indiana Community.
Performing arts concerts and arts in education
The Lake Benton Opera House, one of the premiere historic buildings in southwest Minnesota. Home to an active community theatre, the Opera House has begun its second century in our community.
To support the arts and cultural activities in st charles il
Lewis & clark theatre company inc provided arts and entertainment as well as a facility for the production of theatrical performances and other events in the community
To preserve one of the community's important historic legacies
Arts & entertainment for seymour area
Provide a theatre of live music and events!
Production of stage plays
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delphi Opera House Inc and the most unlike its peers is L&a Park Foundation 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 25 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 56 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 SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF MID-NORTH INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Monon Civic Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DELPHI OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INC ↗
- Who funds VEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY WABASH & ERIE CANAL ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds Long Center Inc Long Center for the Performing ↗
- Who funds FLORA COMMUNITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE CITIZENS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACH CHORALE SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FIDDLERS GATHERING INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PRESERVATION GUILD LTD ↗
- Who funds ON-STAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO PARK BAND INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DELPHI PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Museums at Prophetstown Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RALPH & LILIAN FENDIG SUMMER THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS OF INDIANA ARTS STUDIOS & GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
- Who funds Adams Mill 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: Community Foundation of Howard County · Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Arts Federation 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.