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Vevay Switzerland County Foundation Inc

Vevay, IN · EIN 35-1472069. Reported 72 grants totalling $915,682 to 48 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$6,284median grant
$915,682granted, 2021-2025
48recipients, as named on its returns
32%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,306,356assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Vevay Switzerland County Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $6,284. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $141,421. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
24 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Town of VevayVevay, IN$144,421222025
Jeff Craig Fire and RescueVevay, IN$73,343222025
Switzerland County YMCAVevay, IN$71,250552025
Switzerland County Economic Development Corporation IncVevay, IN$65,500222025
Swiss Wine FestivalVevay, IN$50,600112022
Switzerland County TourismswfVevay, IN$49,000222025
Switzerland County School CorpVevay, IN$37,851542025
Community Foundation of Switzerland CountyVevay, IN$32,555112021
Switzerland County AuditorVevay, IN$30,000222025
Ruter Chapel United Methodist ChurchVevay, IN$26,700112022
Switzerland County TourismVevay, IN$25,600112023
Switzer SquareVevay, IN$25,000112022
Switzerland County High SchoolVevay, IN$22,000112021
Vevay Police DepartmentVevay, IN$18,523332024
Switzerland County Historical SocietyVevay, IN$16,265332025
Switzerland Co 4-H Fair BoardVevay, IN$15,000112023
Olive Branch Baptist Churchbig StufVevay, IN$14,950112024
Olive Branch Baptist Church Big StufVevay, IN$14,692112025
Jeff Craig Fire & RescueVevay, IN$14,100112024
Switzerland Co Public LibraryVevay, IN$11,995332025
Switzerland County Public LibraryVevay, IN$11,600222022
Switzerland County Emergency ManagementVevay, IN$10,548222025
Community Art Center of Switzerland CountyVevay, IN$10,000112025
Community Foundation of SwitzeVevay, IN$10,000112023
Switzerland County BpaVevay, IN$10,000112022
Switzerland Co Historical SocVevay, IN$9,285112023
Historic Hoosier TheaterVevay, IN$7,700112021
Switzerland County FFAVevay, IN$7,700222024
Lifetime ResourcesDillsboro, IN$6,877222025
Switzerland County EmaVevay, IN$6,549222022
Patroiot Main StreetPatriot, IN$6,250112024
Switz Co Economic DevelopmentVevay, IN$6,191112023
Switzerland County School CorporationsVevay, IN$6,000112021
Community Mental Health CenterVevay, IN$5,105112022
IncompassVevay, IN$5,000112025
Moorefield Volunteer Fire DepartmentVevay, IN$5,000112025
Patriot Main StreetPatriot, IN$5,000112025
Se Indiana Economic OpportunityAurora, IN$5,000112024
Switzerland County 4-H Club CommitteeVevay, IN$5,000112022
Childrens Advocacy CenterDillsboro, IN$4,000112023
After PromVevay, IN$3,000112022
Community Foundation of Switz CoVevay, IN$2,500112022
Safe Passage IncBatesville, IN$2,500112023
Southeastern Indiana Independent Living CenterVevay, IN$1,532112021
Switzerland County Middle SchoolVevay, IN$1,500112022
Broads on BoardsVevay, IN$1,000112024
Ohio Youth Valley Boxing ClubVevay, IN$1,000112025
Rise Elite Wrestling ClubVevay, IN$500112024

15 of 48 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 32%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
9 grants
Education
3 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$176,828$7,957
202214$182,827$6,077
202312$123,951$9,142
202415$231,505$4,189
202517$200,571$6,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Vevay, IN
$886K
Patriot, IN
$11K
Dillsboro, IN
$11K
Aurora, IN
$5K
Batesville, IN
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Community Foundation of Switzerland10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 shared recipientsDearborn Community Foundation Inc2 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Madison and2 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati2 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $6,284. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Indiana.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Vevay Switzerland County Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 193, Vevay, IN, 47043. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 35-1472069 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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