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TIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC
The foundation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes including the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, or corresponding sections of any subsequent federal tax code.
$1.1M
Granted FY2024
34
Grants
8
Communities
$119k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of TIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
roboticsinternationaleverygrantmakingteachingdisciples
2020
animalsdistributioninternationalgrantmakingteachingdisciplesevery
2021
animalseverydistributioninternationalpersonthereforeteaching
2022
animalsshelterlead transformationtransformation healthcarehealthcare innovationinnovation educationeducation make
2023
buildingexistscaringjohninternationalstatementyoung
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 34 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $498k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CITY OF TIPTON$119,441
- ENCORE LIFESTYLE AND ENRICHMENT$92,510
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY$79,076
- KELLEY AGRICULTURAL HISTORICAL$73,942
- WEST STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH$71,069
- ALTERNATIVES INC$62,170
- TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$39,128
- TRI-CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP$35,046
- FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE$35,000
- KEMP UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC$26,448
- GUARDIAN ADVOCATES INC$22,500
- TEEN BLAST MINISTRIES$20,561
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF TIPTON COUNTY$20,000
- SALVATION ARMY$14,189
- FAR EAST BROADCASTING$13,980
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $824k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 42 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
42
18
Total granted
$6.2M
$465k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+43%
+41%
Still filing today
48%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationAnimalsOther
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
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH TIPTON HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $772k · revenue +23%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue +213%
- TCTIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING7× · 2017–2024 · $456k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -7%- ELENCORE LIFESTYLE & ENRICHMENT CENTERone grant, 2019 · $76k
- TFTIPTON FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Indiana University Research & Technology
The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…
Education
2
University of Indianapolis
The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.
Education
3
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton Inc
Baptist memorial hospital-tipton, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.
Health
4
West Central Indiana Economic
Economic development, elderly services and transportation planning
Community Improvement
5
Tiffin University
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
Education
6
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Health
7
Trine University
Trine, an internationally recognized private, independent, co-educational institution offers degrees in various programs including engineering, math, science and business.
Education
8
Indiana Sports Corporation
To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana.
Recreation & Sports
9
Indiana Biosciences Research Institute Inc
The ibri is an independent life sciences research institute focused on addressing major underserved areas of public health including diabetes, pediatric rare diseases, and alzheimer's disease. the ibri facilitates the growth of the…
Science & Tech
10
Indiana Regional Medical Center
To serve the healthcare needs of every life we touch with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Health
11
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc
To promote and assist the common interests of those engaged in the grain and feed business, the plants food and agricultural chemicals business, and other agricultural businesses
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12
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana University Health Tipton Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is David C Cook. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
10%
1,167/11,709
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.
05the grantee network
33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,810,197Health$855,706Human Services$846,864Youth Development$744,077Religion$223,468Education$191,412Food & Nutrition$60,725
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 INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH TIPTON HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KELLEY AGRICULTURAL HISTORICAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CW MOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TIPTON FFA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING CO ↗
- Who funds FIREFLY CHILDREN AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ABC & ME ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAVID C COOK GLOBAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION ↗
- Who funds TEEN BLAST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
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.
United Way of Howard County IncIN16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Howard County Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Of · Chattanooga Christian Community · Lilly Endowment Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Servant Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 organisation TIPTON COUNTY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KELLEY AGRICULTURAL HISTORICAL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 310964804 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on KELLEY AGRICULTURAL HISTORICAL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Tipton County Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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