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Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc
"helping people improve our community." families, individuals, businesses, and nonprofit groups establish funds within the foundation into which they can contribute a variety of assets to be used for charitable purposes. Grants are awarded to community projects, nonprofit organizations, and students for scholarships.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $686k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $128,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $43M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $686k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $546k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $325k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $326k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $352k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $323k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $588k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $489k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Covington | $622,692 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Springs Safe House Incorporate | $489,240 | 7 | 23% |
| Food Finders Food Bank Inc | $174,642 | 7 | 0% |
| Fountain County Art Council Inc | $166,525 | 4 | n/a |
| Indiana National Resources | $128,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covington Community School Corporation | $118,687 | 5 | n/a |
| Covington Public Library | $107,907 | 3 | n/a |
| Marilyn's Village Inc | $106,519 | 1 | 65% |
| Vermillion Trails Alliance Inc | $83,600 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Clinton | $78,624 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Covington | $622,692 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Springs Safe House Incorporate | $489,240 | 7 | 23% |
| Food Finders Food Bank Inc | $174,642 | 7 | 0% |
| Fountain County Art Council Inc | $166,525 | 4 | n/a |
| Indiana National Resources | $128,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covington Community School Corporation | $118,687 | 5 | n/a |
| Covington Public Library | $107,907 | 3 | n/a |
| Marilyn's Village Inc | $106,519 | 1 | 65% |
| Vermillion Trails Alliance Inc | $83,600 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Clinton | $78,624 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Action Program Inc of Western Indiana | $78,344 | 6 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Church Clinton Inc | $77,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Town of Cayuga | $67,865 | 3 | n/a |
| Mt Hope Cemetery Association | $65,992 | 6 | n/a |
| Clinton City Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Attica Consolidated School Corporation | $52,282 | 5 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church Terre Haute Inc | $49,869 | 5 | n/a |
| Fountain County 4h Club Council Inc | $48,530 | 2 | 34% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars | $43,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Meinrad Arch Abbey | $41,895 | 5 | n/a |
| Sisters of St Francis | $41,895 | 5 | n/a |
| St Joseph Catholic Church Rockville Inc | $41,895 | 5 | n/a |
| Attica Public Library | $37,575 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Attica | $31,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Town of Dana | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| 4-H Council Vermillion County Inc | $27,802 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of God Ministries Inc | $27,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Ernie Pyle Development Fund Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Southeast Fountain Schools | $24,714 | 2 | n/a |
| Historic Landmarks of Fountain County | $24,348 | 2 | n/a |
| Veedersburg Revitalization Association Inc | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship Inc | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vigo County Education Foundation Inc | $23,316 | 4 | 2% |
| Helt Fire & Rescue Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Sugar Creek Resource Center | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Paws N Claws Animal Shelter | $21,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Vermillion County Reserves Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc | $19,400 | 2 | 1% |
| Black Diamond Fire Department | $18,903 | 2 | n/a |
| Covington Youth Football | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vermilion 4-H Foundation Inc | $17,700 | 1 | 8% |
| Covington Christian School Inc | $17,007 | 3 | 7% |
| Covington Music Boosters | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| First Church of Christ | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Attica Main Street Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 14% |
| South Vermillion Band Boosters | $13,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Parke Vermillion Co Humane Society | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Niches Land Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Parke Players Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covington Youth Baseball League | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rediscover Clinton Inc | $9,781 | 1 | n/a |
| Perrysville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated | $9,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Parke Vermillion Christian Youth Mission Inc | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Child-Adult Resource Services Inc | $8,425 | 1 | 0% |
| Attica North Neighborhood | $8,175 | 1 | n/a |
| Servants at Work Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Covington Girls Softball League | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| A S K Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Attica Free Methodist Church | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| American Legion Post 184 | $7,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Clinton Wrestling Club | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Mellott | $6,145 | 1 | n/a |
| The Breakfast Optimist Club of Clinton Indiana Inc | $5,918 | 1 | 37% |
| Women's Resource Center of Montgomery County Inc | $5,528 | 1 | 2% |
| Marshall Community Schools | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Silver Island Cemetary Association | $5,328 | 1 | n/a |
| Veedersburg Food Pantry-Church God | $5,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana Regular Baptist Youth Camp | $5,021 | 1 | 6% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($164k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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About Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc give?
- Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc reported 31 itemized grants totaling $686,174, out of $1,594,754 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (22%), Education (14%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Covington ($623k), Hope Springs Safe House Incorporate ($489k), Food Finders Food Bank Inc ($175k).
- Does Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc based?
- Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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