· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $869,593 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,089,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,650 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 $10k16 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $498k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $900k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- 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 AGING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $531k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
Indiana University Foundationone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +21%- TFTIPTON FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $75k
- AMABC & MEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +186%
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
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 Kahm Inc co Chris Kelley. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 63 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 Indiana University Health Tipton Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds KAHM INC co CHRIS KELLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIPTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TIPTON FFA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TIPTON COUNTY MUSTARD SEED INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ABC & ME ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAVID C COOK ↗
- Who funds TEEN BLAST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SECOND BLESSING THRIFT SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Guardian Advocates 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 Howard County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Campbell Family Foundation Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community 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 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.
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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