· Public charity
United Way of South Central Indiana
United way improves people's lives by addressing critical needs today and working to reduce those needs tomorrow.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $373,211 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $517,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,325 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 · $39k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE WAY HOUSE | $34,977 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA | $31,580 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY | $29,459 |
| STONE BELT ARC | $27,283 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON | $25,797 |
| HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK | $25,522 |
| SHALOM COMMUNITY CENTER | $23,991 |
| NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER | $20,987 |
| MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD | $20,142 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BLOOMINGTON | $18,765 |
| AREA 10 AGENCY ON AGING | $16,872 |
| MONROE COUNTY UNITED MINISTRIES | $13,277 |
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES | $12,617 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MONROE | $11,658 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $11,039 |
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 (FY20–24, $701k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- BIBEACON INC4× · 2020–2023 · $281k · revenue +78%
- GCGREENE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $281k · revenue +626%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC5× · 2020–2024 · $238k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- FFFATHER FOREVER COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue +404%
- BMBERTHA'S MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -20%
- HUHOOSIER UPLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +1%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 54 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 HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds STONE BELT ARC INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds OWEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AREA 10 COUNCIL ON AGING OF MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds AMETHYST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEDESIGNS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Pantry 279 Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Recovery Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds FATHER FOREVER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BERTHA'S MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY INDIANA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER UPLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF NEW LIFE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Bloomington Health Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · For the Girls Inc · Curry Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Partnership Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc
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 South Central Indiana 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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