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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$856kYouth Development$772kEducation$570kFood & Nutrition$264kRecreation & Sports$190kPublic Benefit$169kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $1,170,931, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,482,159 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $311,228 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $890k
$10,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$200,100
INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH FOUND$163,591
KELLEY AGRICULTURAL HISTORICAL$136,994
ENCORE LIFESTYLE AND ENRICHMENT$96,100
TRI-CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP$90,947
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY$81,098
TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$64,246
WEST STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH$57,314
KEMP UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC$30,266
TIPTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION$23,903
TIPTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$20,000
HOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER$15,091
UNITED WAY SERVING HOWARD AND$15,000
FAR EAST BROADCASTING$14,132
SALVATION ARMY$14,132
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $35k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $22k → 16%CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $15k → 16%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%ENCORE LIFESTYLE AND ENRICHMENT: $96k → 10%ENCORE LIFESTYLE AND ENRICHMENT: $93k → 10%ENCORE LIFESTYLE AND ENRICHMENT: $87k → 10%ENCORE LIFESTYLE & ENRICHMENT CENTER: $76k → 10%SERVANTS AT WORK: $7k → 16%SERVANTS AT WORK: $7k → 16%ENCORE LIFESTYLE & ENRICHMENT CENTER: $67k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $64k → 10%ENCORE LIFESTYLE & ENRICHMENT CENTER: $56k → 10%ENCORE LIFESTYLE & ENRICHMENT CENTER: $52k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $51k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $51k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $51k → 10%ABC & ME: $45k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $39k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $31k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $26k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 10%TIPTON COUNTY SHARES INC: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 46 repeat orgs$653k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
16

Total granted

$7.2M
$392k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

48%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IU
    Indiana University Health Tipton Hospital Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $772k · revenue +23%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +213%
  • TC
    TIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $627k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

  • Indiana University Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • AM
    ABC & MEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +186%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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2
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

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3
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
8
Indiana University Health Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
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
11
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Howard County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAHM INC co CHRIS KELLEY: $702,938 · OtherKAHM INC co CHRIS KELLEYST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: $617,141 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCHWEST ST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $359,906 · OtherWEST ST CHRISTIAN CHURCHTRI CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $307,773 · OtherTRI CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $293,395 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIPTON COUNTY INC: $258,658 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIPTON COUNTY INCKEMP UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC: $223,866 · OtherTIPTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $220,841 · OtherTIPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $200,100 · OtherALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY: $188,996 · Other+36 more: $1,042,242 · Other+36 moreTIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $627,353 · Human ServicesTIPTON COUNTY C…TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $299,357 · Human ServicesTIPTON COUNTY H…CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BURE…ABC & ME: $44,500 · Human Services+3 more: $48,500 · Human ServicesIndiana University Health Tipton Hospital Inc: $772,111 · HealthIndiana Univer…Indiana University Health Foundation Inc: $232,686 · HealthIndiana Univer…+2 more: $29,591 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY: $638,083 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…FRIENDS OF TIPTON FFA INC: $159,436 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF T…+2 more: $42,972 · Youth DevelopmentFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $106,264 · ReligionDAVID C COOK: $48,478 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $38,356 · ReligionTEEN BLAST MINISTRIES: $36,628 · ReligionYouth for Christ International Ministries: $22,006 · ReligionIndiana University Foundation: $150,000 · EducationJOHNSON UNIVERSITY: $48,478 · EducationFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $60,725 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,415,856Human Services$1,101,710Health$1,034,388Youth Development$840,491Religion$251,732Education$198,478Food & Nutrition$60,725

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Health Tipton Hospital Inc: $772,111 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKAHM INC co CHRIS KELLEY: $702,938 over 9y, 69% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY: $638,083 over 9y, 19% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $627,353 over 9y, 46% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $299,357 over 9y, 56% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIPTON COUNTY INC: $258,658 over 6y, 53% of budgetIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $232,686 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY: $188,996 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF TIPTON FFA INC: $159,436 over 2y, 48% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $106,264 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $82,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY MUSTARD SEED INC: $65,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $60,725 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TIPTON COUNTY: $49,172 over 4y, 15% of budgetDAVID C COOK: $48,478 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $48,478 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON UNIVERSITY: $48,478 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetABC & ME: $44,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $38,356 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN BLAST MINISTRIES: $36,628 over 3y, 12% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSECOND BLESSING THRIFT SHOP INC: $31,717 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $26,472 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGuardian Advocates Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetYouth for Christ International Ministries: $22,006 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF YOUTH ABUSE AND SUICIDE: $16,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER: $15,091 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HOWARD COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIndiana University Health North Hospital Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServants at Work Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY SHARES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetTHE ARTS FEDERATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS ON MY HEART INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 TIPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF TIPTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • 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 TIPTON COUNTY MUSTARD SEED INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DAVID C COOK ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ABC & ME ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TEEN BLAST MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TIPTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND BLESSING THRIFT SHOP INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Howard …Lilly Endowment IncCentral Indiana Commu…Campbell Family Found…Early Learning Indian…Christian Community F…Christian Community F…Hamilton County Commu…Thrivent Financial fo…The Indianapolis Foun…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Chattanooga Christian…
United Way of Howard County IncIN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tipton County Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tipton County Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tipton County Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tipton County Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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