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TLGC Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

International$186kEducation$148kHealth$76kReligion$41kHuman Services$38kRecreation & Sports$35kHousing & Shelter$31kCrime & Legal$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$25,000
HISTORIC SANTA CLAUS CAMPGROUND CORP$19,000
NORTH SPENCER COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION$15,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC$5,000
NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC$4,000
UNITED CARING SHELTERS INC$3,000
BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION$2,000
SPENCER COUNTY CASA INC$2,000
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRY INC$2,000
TRI STATE FOOD BANK INC$2,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$2,000
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE$2,000
Heritage Hills High School$2,000
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$2,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $2k → 18%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $1k → 18%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $1k → 18%STIR-N-UP HOPE INC: $1k → 8%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $7k → 7%EASTER SEALS SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INCORPORATED: $1k → 15%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $4k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $3k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $2k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $2k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $2k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $2k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $1k → 7%NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC: $1k → 7%FOSTER CARE IN THE US INC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$560k · 24 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$560k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +163%
  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +56%
  • James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association
    7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • IM
    INDIANA MINING AND MINERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • PC
    PETSMART CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +15%

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
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
2
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Clinton County Inc

To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana

Animals
4
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
5
Jay County Humane Society Inc

The jay county humane society is a limited admissions shelter committed to finding good homes for stray, abandoned, mis-treated and unwanted animals.

Animals
6
Humane Society of Scott County

The humane society of scott county provides humane care for all lost, abandoned and unwanted pets in scott county, to adopt these pets to caring, responsible, life-long homes, and to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.

Animals
7
Spay Neuter Services of Indiana

Pet friendly services of indiana saves animal lives and prevents suffering. we provide free and low-cost spay/neuter surgery certificates to animal shelters, rescue groups and limited-income families. our lifesaving services address the…

Animals
8
Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc

Our hospice of south central indiana, inc. (ohsci) is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing services to the terminally ill in a 22-county service area. since its inception 44 years ago, hospice has expanded to meet the…

Human Services
9
Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals
10
New Hope Rescue Inc

We rescue dogs and cats on death row. we give medical care and find them forever homes.

Animals
11
Second Chance Humane Society Inc

Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.

Animals
12
Humane Indiana Inc

To lead the community in the humane treatment of animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southwestern Indiana Incorp and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight of Southern Indiana Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Mentoring ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr13%11%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr23%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr13%54%35–55yr23%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,947

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.

04the grantee network

42 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH SPENCER COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $115,370 · OtherNORTH SPENCER COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATIONSANTA CLAUS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $20,300 · OtherSANTA CLAUS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHINDIANA MINING AND MINERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · OtherINDIANA MINING AND MINERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM INCHeritage Hills High School — $13,000 · OtherBread of Life Ministry Inc — $12,000 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $9,000 · OtherJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association — $14,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC — $9,000 · Other+21 more — $54,255 · Other+21 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $176,400 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE+1 more — $1,000 · ReligionBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $18,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $13,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC — $2,000 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthNORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesHISTORIC SANTA CLAUS CAMPGROUND INC — $34,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $1,150 · Recreation & SportsHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $18,000 · Housing & ShelterUnited Caring Shelters Inc — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSPENCER COUNTY CASA INC — $28,000 · Civil Rights
Other$266,925Religion$177,400Health$47,000Human Services$37,000Recreation & Sports$35,150Housing & Shelter$33,000Civil Rights$28,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $176,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SANTA CLAUS CAMPGROUND INC — $34,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetSPENCER COUNTY CASA INC — $28,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetNORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $24,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc — $13,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBread of Life Ministry Inc — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN INDIANA RESOURCE SOLUTIONS INC — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIT TAKES A VILLAGE CANINE RESCUE INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER PATHWAYS MIDWEST — $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKUPENDWA MINISTRIES & MISSION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDUBOIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPETSMART CHARITIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRICK HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWLIFE RESCUE & ADOPTION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN CO HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPKINS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WAY OF ROCKPORT INDIANA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOSTER CARE IN THE US INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER LAFAYETTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation Alliance IncIN31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Celanese Foundation · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Deaconess Hospital Inc · C Richard Johnson & Verna Louise Johnson Foundation Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · St Mary's Health Inc · German American 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 TLGC Foundation 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.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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