Adams County Community Foundation
Decatur, IN · EIN 35-1834664. Reported 96 grants totalling $2,167,118 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Adams County Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,080. Half of what it reported fell between $7,617 and $22,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $150,902. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary of the Assumption Catholic | Decatur, IN | $476,781 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Adams Administrative Office | Decatur, IN | $394,073 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| South Adams Jrsr High | Berne, IN | $259,782 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Joe Catholic Cemetery | Decatur, IN | $103,155 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Adams County Inc | Decatur, IN | $82,394 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Decatur Chamber of Commerce | Decatur, IN | $67,350 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Connect to Careers Inc | Decatur, IN | $61,273 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Swiss Heritage Society Inc | Berne, IN | $49,616 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Missionary Church | Berne, IN | $48,240 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Adams County Sheriff's Department | Decatur, IN | $43,415 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Decatur | Decatur, IN | $42,440 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Decatur, IN | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Adams County Indiana Inc | Decatur, IN | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Adams Arts Council Inc | Decatur, IN | $28,846 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Diocese of Ft Wayne South Bend Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $27,644 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Paul Lutheran Church | Decatur, IN | $26,106 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Decatur Cemetery Association Inc | Decatur, IN | $24,079 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Adams Public Library System | Decatur, IN | $22,547 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adams County Council for Aging Inc | Decatur, IN | $20,829 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Limberlost State Historical Site Inc | Geneva, IN | $20,482 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Legion Post 43 | Decatur, IN | $20,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Crossroads Community | Berne, IN | $18,061 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Unfailing Love Clinic Inc | Decatur, IN | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| South Adams Trails Inc | Berne, IN | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Decatur Parks & Recreation | Decatur, IN | $16,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Bridge Community Church | Logansport, IN | $15,950 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Decatur, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Adams Memorial Hospital | Decatur, IN | $14,082 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hope Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $13,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Hope Clinic Inc | Berne, IN | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Geneva Proud Inc | Geneva, IN | $11,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Adams Wells Crisis Center Inc | Decatur, IN | $11,372 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Holy Trinitiy Cemetery | Bryant, IN | $10,538 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Purdue Research Foundation | West Lafayette, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Marks United Methodist Church | Decatur, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Adams Central Community Schools | Monroe, IN | $9,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bi-County Services Inc | Bluffton, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Swiss Village Inc | Berne, IN | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adams County Lodge 127 Fraternal Order of Police Inc | Decatur, IN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adams County Historical Society Inc | Decatur, IN | $7,617 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc | Huntertown, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Decatur Indiana Main Street Inc | Decatur, IN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Get Sober Stay Sober | Decatur, IN | $6,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grace First Community Church | Decatur, IN | $5,894 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Three Oaks Christian School Corporation | Decatur, IN | $5,452 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
27 of 45 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $555,650 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $520,735 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 25 | $608,531 | $9,300 |
| 2024 | 26 | $482,202 | $10,735 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,080 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Adams County Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 102 N 2ND St, Decatur, IN, 46733.
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