· Public charity
United Way of Noble County Inc
To unite its community and improve the quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $139,013 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,730 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,717 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE & FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| COLE CENTER YMCA | $20,000 |
| ARC OF NOBLE COUNTY | $17,000 |
| NOBLE COUNTY MIRACLE TREE INC | $10,000 |
| COMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| DRUG FREE NOBLE COUNTY | $9,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $9,000 |
| INDIANA CONSTRUCTION ROUNDTABLE | $7,500 |
| LUTHERAN LIFE VILLAGES | $6,013 |
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 (FY20–20, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- CGCOMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +8%
- NHNOBLE HOUSEINC2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +17%
- CSCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATESone grant, 2019 · $6k
- SMST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -61%
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.
To serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose-filled life.
Provide services in response to individual need
Since its funding in 1953, NOBLE INC has provided a variety of services and support to children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families in Central Indiana. Noble's mission is to create opportunities for people with…
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…
Provide family planning services without regard for the patients ability to pay for services.
Motivated by the love of christ, a hope center heals hearts and saves lives by providing free pregnancy services, resources, and education to nurture sexual, emotional, and spiritual health.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To provide assistance to the needy in southearstern indiana in the form of food housing and utilities.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network leverages the resources of houses of worship in the greater Indianapolis area to provide emergency shelter, food, case management, and aftercare services to families experiencing homelessness.
To improve the health, wellness, and quality of life of all individuals in our community by providing accessible, high quality, affordable, patient-centered and integrated health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Services of Allen County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indiana Construction Roundtable Foundati. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 LIFE & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cole Center Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds NOBLE HOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DRUG FREE NOBLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Construction Roundtable Foundati ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE 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: Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Community Hospital of Noble County Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Author & Josephine Campbell Beter Foundation · Crossroads United Way Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Noble County 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.