· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHOPE SPRINGS SAFE HOUSE INCORPORATE7× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +72%
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +65%
- 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
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.
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.
Volunteer fire department
Animal shelter
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Provide exposition for 4-h youth
Conduct annual county fair
Support of 4-h program in kosciusko county, indiana
Oversee the operation of 4-h for tipton county indiana
Provide and maintain 4-h fair buildings and grounds
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
Provide the youth of martin county indiana guidance and opportunity in 4h programs
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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