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Evansville Endowment Fund Inc

Evansville, IN · EIN 35-2062629. Reported 103 grants totalling $2,420,692 to 52 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

52organizations funded
$24,238median reported grant
$2,420,692granted, 2020-2024
44%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Evansville Endowment Fund Inc, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in community improvement -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE S110).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $24,238. Half of what it reported fell between $14,345 and $31,125; the smallest was $5,385 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
35 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
48 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Carver Community Organization IncEvansville, IN$143,121552024
Habitat for Humanity International IncEvansville, IN$143,000552024
United Methodist Youth Home IncEvansville, IN$113,647442023
Louis J Koch Family Childrens Museum of Evansville IncEvansville, IN$113,000332023
Community One IncEvansville, IN$105,000552024
Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center IncEvansville, IN$99,092442023
Evansville Museum of Arts and ScienceEvansville, IN$90,571332024
United Caring Shelters IncEvansville, IN$88,660332022
Ozanam Family Shelter CorpEvansville, IN$83,115332024
St Vincent Early Learning Center IncEvansville, IN$80,724222024
Evansville African American Museum IncEvansville, IN$79,200332024
Albion Fellows Bacon Center IncEvansville, IN$72,500222023
Evansville Christian Life Center IncEvansville, IN$71,120332024
YWCA of Evansville Indiana IncEvansville, IN$66,000222024
Reitz Home Preservation Society IncEvansville, IN$60,000332023
Hollys House IncEvansville, IN$57,940332023
Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging IncEvansville, IN$55,000222024
United Way of Southwestern Indiana IncEvansville, IN$50,000112020
Evansville Assn for the BlindEvansville, IN$49,038222023
Dream Center EvansvilleEvansville, IN$48,935332024
District of Evansville of the Society of St Vincent De Paul IncEvansville, IN$46,000332023
Joshuas City School IncorporatedEvansville, IN$41,180112020
Ark IncEvansville, IN$40,000222024
Franklin Street Events AssociationEvansville, IN$40,000112021
The Potters Wheel IncEvansville, IN$39,721222024
Aurora IncEvansville, IN$36,990112020
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$36,200112022
Southwestern Healthcare IncEvansville, IN$35,844112024
Tri State Food Bank IncEvansville, IN$34,540332024
Community Action Program of Evansville and Vanderburgh CountyEvansville, IN$32,000112024
Evansville Parks Foundation IncEvansville, IN$30,000112020
Vanderburgh County Humane Society IncEvansville, IN$30,000112024
The Gathering ChurchEvansville, IN$25,526112023
Jd Sheth Foundation IncEvansville, IN$25,000112023
Wesselman Park Nature Society IncEvansville, IN$25,000112022
Evansville Arc IncEvansville, IN$21,370222024
Lampion Center IncEvansville, IN$20,358332024
Boy Scouts of AmericaEvansville, IN$20,000112023
Uncharted International IncEvansville, IN$20,000112021
Hydration Station Charity CorpNewburgh, IN$19,977112024
Wnin Tri-State Public Media IncEvansville, IN$18,494222024
Sycamore Rehabilitation Services Hendricks County Arc IncDanville, IN$16,500112020
Evsc Foundation IncEvansville, IN$15,000112022
Young Mens Christian Association of Southwestern Indiana IncEvansville, IN$15,000112021
Impact Evansville IncEvansville, IN$10,000112024
Jacobs Village IncEvansville, IN$9,900112020
Vanderburgh County CASA IncorporatedEvansville, IN$9,244112020
Parenting Time CenterEvansville, IN$8,300112022
Boys and Girls Club of Evansville IncEvansville, IN$8,050112023
Memorial Community Development CorporationEvansville, IN$7,624112021
American Baptist East IncEvansville, IN$6,833112021
Catholic Charities Diocese of EvansvilleEvansville, IN$6,378112023

26 of 52 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 40 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
20 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Education
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202020$487,556$20,395
202122$484,235$20,000
202216$457,188$25,431
202323$490,733$24,038
202422$500,980$25,000

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

99% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Indiana
$2.4M
District of Columbia
$36K

Down to the city

Evansville, IN
$2.3M
Washington, DC
$36K
Newburgh, IN
$20K
Danville, IN
$16K

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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 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 Alliance Inc35 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund33 shared recipientsWelborn Baptist Foundation Inc26 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsThe Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third25 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc23 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,238 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
  4. 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 Evansville Endowment Fund Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 20 Nw 3RD Street Suite 820, Evansville, IN, 47708.

EIN 35-2062629 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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