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SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,000 to it, the largest being REGIONAL OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVES INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$317k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$92k
Net assets
$409k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Spencer-Owen County Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

Promote economic development and stimulate business within the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To stimulate business, continue to increase the value of the membership, and to create more opportunities for economic growth within the community.

    $298,325 spent$84,145 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. To stimulate business, continue to increase the value of the membership, and to create more opportunities for economic growth within the community.

    $13,272 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $311,597.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($166k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($186k)2018 Revenue 120 ($199k) Expenses 104 ($146k) Net assets 128 ($238k)2019 Revenue 129 ($214k) Expenses 138 ($193k) Net assets 139 ($259k)2020 Revenue 134 ($222k) Expenses 190 ($266k) Net assets 126 ($235k)2021 Revenue 170 ($282k) Expenses 138 ($193k) Net assets 187 ($348k)2022 Revenue 133 ($221k) Expenses 177 ($247k) Net assets 171 ($319k)2023 Revenue 181 ($301k) Expenses 187 ($261k) Net assets 193 ($360k)2024 Revenue 183 ($305k) Expenses 187 ($261k) Net assets 217 ($404k)2025 Revenue 191 ($317k) Expenses 224 ($312k) Net assets 219 ($409k)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (224)Net assets (219)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $241k to $375k (+56%).

$189k
$245k
$279k
$241k
$375k
$348k
$389k
$441k
$431k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
$53k
’18
$21k
’19
−$44k
’20
$89k
’21
−$26k
’22
$41k
’23
$44k
’24
$5k
’25
6.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Bruce Hamlin

Edc chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131113912111113
Joined·+1+2+1+4+6+3+3
No longer listed·3051731
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $50k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $95k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Owen County Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

54%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

75% of SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,000 to it, the largest being REGIONAL OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVES INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $92,000 in grants to SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
REGIONAL OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVES INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPENCER-OWEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing