· Community foundation
Union County Foundation Inc
To assist donors in building and preserving perpetual charitable funds; to meet the changing needs of our community and to enrich the quality of life for the residents of union county.
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 13 grants below total $298,071 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $438,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,623 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 $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE CORNER UNION SCHOOL | $61,920 |
| UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $51,455 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $36,338 |
| UNION COUNTY PARKS BOARD | $24,650 |
| ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,780 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH | $13,589 |
| WHITEWATER ADULT EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE | $9,000 |
| UNION COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
| BROWNSVILLE CHRISTIAN UNION | $8,350 |
| UNION COUNTY YOUTH LEAGUE | $6,889 |
| UNION COUNTY WEST POINT CEMETERY | $5,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- WCWEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE2× · 2022–2023 · $183k · revenue +31%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +4%
- UCUnion County Development Corp5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +5% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNION COUNTY PARKSone grant, 2019 · $165k
- JIJUNCTION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $42k
- SGST GABRIEL CATHOLIC CHURCH CONNERSVILLE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Volunteer fire company formed for public safety through community firefighting and rescue services as well as education/information for the community regarding fire safety
Volunteer firefighting for area municipalities
Establishment and maintenance of a public cemetery for the burial of the dead
The organization maintains a public cemetery
Exploring union county's past to inform the present and future."
This organization strives to preserve and record the history of union county, and it strives to give the union county community an appreciation of the area's history and culture through education and operation of a museum.
Cemetery
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
To manage, organize and host a county fair. To organize and conduct an annual fair for the 4-H and FFA members as well as local and surrounding community members.
Volunteer firemen keep equipment in proper working order and up to date. provide emergency fire and ems service to the union bridge community.
Members only community club that supports local endeavors
Educational promotion of local and regional historical facts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union County 4H Club AssociationInc and the most unlike its peers is West College Corner Volunteer Fire. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 WEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY HS ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Union County Development Corp ↗
- Who funds Union County 4H Club AssociationInc ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER COLLEGE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana Lodge 58 ↗
- Who funds UNION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY YOUTH LEAGUE 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Union 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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