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Vision Communities Inc at a glance

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Vision Communities Inc

To engage in community development activities and provide safe and decent activities to low- to-moderate-income persons.

$59k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
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 2022.

Youth Development$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,250 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ST MARY'S EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Vision Communities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 0%.

Vision Communities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 3 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$98k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +164%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +92%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • JC
    JLL CMG Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -83%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +95%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
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
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
3
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho supports families of ill or injured children by keeping them together in times of medical need. Families are the center of our purpose and we provide them with a safe and secure place for healing…

Health
4
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest

We, in partnership with our community, provide a comfortable and caring home away from home that supports keeping families together and reduces stress during a child's serious illness.

Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington

The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.

Health
8
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Healthlinc Incorporated

Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.

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11
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.

—
12
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jll Cmg Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $60,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INCGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $18,000 · OtherGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INCHORIZON HOUSE INC: $5,000 · OtherHORIZON HOUSE INCST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INCJLL CMG Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesJLL CMG FoundationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & I…James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$93,000Human Services$40,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJLL CMG Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Brave Heart Found…United Way of Central…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Brave Heart Foundation IncIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Vision Communities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vision Communities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Vision Communities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Vision Communities 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 8 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $83k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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