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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.

$439k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$458kEducation$429kReligion$248kYouth Development$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kFood & Nutrition$56kCommunity Improvement$49kMembership Benefit$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $298,071, the rows itemized in this filing. The $438,694 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $140,623 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$13,589
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $14k → 9%BROWNSVILLE CHRISTIAN UNION: $8k → 11%ST GABRIEL & ST BRIDGET CATHOLIC: $15k → 14%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $40k → 18%COLLEGE CORNER UNION SCHOOL: $62k → 11%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $13k → 9%WEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE: $100k → 11%WHITEWATER ADULT EDUCATION: $10k → 14%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $40k → 18%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $13k → 9%TOWN OF WEST COLLEGE CORNER INDIANA: $70k → 11%UNION COUNTY PARKS BOARD: $38k → 18%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $13k → 9%THE JUNCTION INC: $42k → 11%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $30k → 18%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $12k → 9%COLLEGE CORNER COMMUNITY CLUB: $33k → 11%UNION COUNTY PARKS BOARD: $25k → 18%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $12k → 9%TOWN OF WEST COLLEGE CORNER INDIANA: $13k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $22k → 18%ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH: $12k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNION COUNTY PARKS: $165k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $21k → 18%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $113k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 18%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $51k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 18%UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $46k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 18%UNION COUNTY COLLEGE CORNER JOINT: $46k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 18%UNION COUNTY COLLEGE CORNER JOINT: $41k → 11%ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 18%UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $36k → 11%UNION COUNTY PARKS BOARD: $15k → 18%UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $32k → 11%UNION COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 11%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11k → 11%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 11%LIBERTY LIONS CLUB: $10k → 11%FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF INDIANA: $10k → 11%LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 11%UNION COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $9k → 11%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE: $9k → 11%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8k → 11%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 14 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+636%

Still filing today

36%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • WC
    WEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $183k · revenue +31%
  • IT
    IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +4%
  • UC
    Union County Development Corp
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +5% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNION COUNTY PARKS
    one grant, 2019 · $165k
  • JI
    JUNCTION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $42k
  • SG
    ST GABRIEL CATHOLIC CHURCH CONNERSVILLE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Union Township Volunteer Fire Co

Volunteer fire company formed for public safety through community firefighting and rescue services as well as education/information for the community regarding fire safety

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Union Fire Company No 1

Volunteer firefighting for area municipalities

Health
3
Union Cemetery of Fayette County

Establishment and maintenance of a public cemetery for the burial of the dead

Membership Benefit
4
Union County Historical Society

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.

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5
Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

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6
Union County Historical Society

Exploring union county's past to inform the present and future."

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7
Union Cemetery Company

The organization maintains a public cemetery

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8
Union Cemetery Association

Cemetery

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9
Union Bridge Fire Company Inc

Volunteer firemen keep equipment in proper working order and up to date. provide emergency fire and ems service to the union bridge community.

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10
Union County Fair Assn

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Union County Cancer Society Inc

To assist and to provide relief cancer patients who are residents of union county

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12
Uniontown Community Club

Members only community club that supports local endeavors

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union County 4H Club AssociationInc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE: $182,500 · OtherWEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIREUNION COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $174,770 · OtherUNION COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY UNION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYTRUSTEES OF THE UNION COUNTY PARKS: $164,900 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNION COUNTY PARKSST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC CHURCH RICHMOND INC: $143,406 · OtherST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC CHURCH RICHMOND INCUNION COUNTY-COLLEGE CORNER JOIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $91,850 · OtherUNION COUNTY-COLLEGE CORNER JOIN SCHOOL DISTRICTUnion County Development Corp: $89,853 · OtherUnion County Development CorpST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $89,463 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCHCOLLEGE CORNER UNION SCHOOL: $61,920 · OtherJUNCTION INCORPORATED: $41,850 · Other+15 more: $212,722 · Other+15 moreUNION COUNTY HS ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $141,186 · Recreation & SportsUNION COUNT…UNION COUNTY YOUTH LEAGUE INC: $6,889 · Recreation & SportsIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Education
Other$1,253,234Recreation & Sports$148,075Education$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST COLLEGE CORNER VOLUNTEER FIRE: $182,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNION COUNTY HS ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $141,186 over 6y, 86% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnion County Development Corp: $89,853 over 5y, 36% of budgetUnion County 4H Club AssociationInc: $21,200 over 3y, 10% of budgetWHITEWATER COLLEGE PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFree and Accepted Masons of Indiana Lodge 58: $10,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetUNION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,350 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNION COUNTY YOUTH LEAGUE INC: $6,889 over 1y, 10% 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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Union County Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Union 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Union County Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Union 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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