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William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation’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.

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Margaret Mary Hospital Foundation$67,000
Kids Discovery Factory$50,000
St Louis Catholic Schoolchurch$30,000
Batesville Main Street$25,000
Safe Passage$25,000
Batesville Memorial Public Library$25,000
Healthnetwork Foundation$25,000
So Loved Ripley County Foster Closet$8,250
Summer Food For Kids$5,000
Batesville Historical Society$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Healthnetwork Foundation: $25k → 17%Edelweiss House: $7k → 11%Safe Passage: $25k → 12%Safe Passage: $25k → 12%Safe Passage: $23k → 12%Safe Passage: $20k → 12%Safe Passage: $20k → 12%So Loved Ripley County Foster Closet: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$953k · 14 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$953k
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+15%

Still filing today

36%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +15%
  • BM
    BATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $58k · revenue +56%
  • MM
    MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +570%

Funded once

  • B
    BCEF
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CO
    City of Batesville
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ripley Inc
2
St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc

As a catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.

Health
3
Riggs Community Health Center Inc

Providing primary health care to low-income residents.

Health
4
Mark Twain Medical Center

Mark twain medical center is committed to furthering the charitable and community-based health care purposes, mission, vision and core values. through teamwork and innovation, faith and compassion, advocacy and action, we endeavor every…

Health
5
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
6
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Foundation

To support ridgecrest regional hospital

Health
7
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

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

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

9
DuBois Regional Medical Center

To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…

Health
10
Riverwood Healthcare Center & Community Hospital Foundation

Riverwood foundation exists to raise money for riverwood healthcare center to enhance the quality of care for the community we serve.

11
Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital

Our commitment to the bitterroot valley is quality, accessible, personalized healthcare.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Margaret Mary Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Batesville Main Street Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Louis Catholic Schoolchurch — $213,625 · OtherSt Louis Catholic SchoolchurchOldenburg Academy — $178,077 · OtherOldenburg AcademyMargaret Mary Hospital Foundation — $132,000 · OtherMargaret Mary Hospital FoundationSt Catherine of Sienna — $65,000 · OtherSt Catherine of SiennaBatesville High School — $57,500 · OtherBatesville High SchoolBCEF — $50,000 · OtherBCEFCity of Batesville — $30,000 · Other+18 more — $164,137 · Other+18 moreSAFE PASSAGE INC — $112,500 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE …HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK…SO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET — $8,250 · Human ServicesSO LOVED RIPL…EDELWEISS HOUSE INC — $7,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesKIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC — $57,875 · Community ImprovementMARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthGIVING HEARTS A HAND INC — $2,500 · HealthXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationRIPLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$890,339Human Services$153,750Arts & Culture$80,000Community Improvement$57,875Health$52,500Education$10,000Philanthropy$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $112,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC — $57,875 over 3y, 21% of budgetMARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET — $8,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetEDELWEISS HOUSE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGIVING HEARTS A HAND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetRIPLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SAFE PASSAGE INC
  • Who funds BATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC
  • Who funds KIDS DISCOVERY FACTORY
  • Who funds MARGARET MARY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SO LOVED RIPLEY COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET
  • Who funds EDELWEISS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds GIVING HEARTS A HAND INC
  • Who funds RIPLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches

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.

The Frederick W and Jolene Edmunds Rockwood Family FoundationIN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frederick W and Jolene Edmunds Rockwood Family Foundation · John A Hillenbrand Foundation Inc · W August Hillenbrand Family Foundation · Ripley County Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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