· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of WESTERN INDIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $686,174 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,594,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $908,580 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 $10k12 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA NATIONAL RESOURCES | $128,000 |
| WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE | $115,424 |
| MARILYN'S VILLAGE INC | $106,519 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK | $38,569 |
| COVINGTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $22,000 |
| VERMILLION COUNTY RESERVES INC | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $17,996 |
| VERMILLION COUNTY 4-H | $17,700 |
| COVINGTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP | $15,372 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $14,650 |
| COVINGTON YOUTH FOOTBALL | $12,500 |
| NORTH VERMILLION COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $11,700 |
| BLACK DIAMOND FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,603 |
| CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 15% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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
- HSHOPE SPRINGS SAFE HOUSE INCORPORATE7× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +72%
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +48%
- CACommunity Action Program Inc of Western Indiana6× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $43k · revenue +192%
- 4C4-H COUNCIL VERMILLION COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -18%
- KCKANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCone grant, 2019 · $24k
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.
Volunteer fire department
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Animal shelter
Provide exposition for 4-h youth
Provide and maintain 4-h fair buildings and grounds
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
Conduct annual county fair
Support of 4-h program in kosciusko county, indiana
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
To provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, Indiana
Hold an annual agricultural fair for the youth in the county and surrounding areas
To provide fire and ambulance service to Covington TWP and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child-Adult Resource Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covington Girls Softball League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 80 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 HOPE SPRINGS SAFE HOUSE INCORPORATE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARILYN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Action Program Inc of Western Indiana ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN COUNTY 4H CLUB COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS ↗
- Who funds 4-H COUNCIL VERMILLION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ernie Pyle Development Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds VEEDERSBURG REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Helt Fire & Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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: Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Parke County Community Foundation Inc · North Central Health Services Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · Sia Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Western Indiana Community Foundation 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.
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