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Fayette County Foundation Inc

Connersville, IN · EIN 35-2232770. Reported 69 grants totalling $882,413 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$882,413granted, 2021-2024
54%of grantees funded again the next year
12%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 Fayette County Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 54% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,383 and $13,681; the smallest was $5,010 and the largest $85,000. 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
34 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
30 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
City of ConnersvilleConnersville, IN$105,000222023
Historic Connersville IncConnersville, IN$68,121742024
First Presbyterian ChurchConnersville, IN$54,087442024
Fayette County School CorporationConnersville, IN$49,626442024
Fayette County Foundation IncConnersville, IN$45,756112022
Indiana Audubon Society IncConnersville, IN$43,184542024
Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation IncSyracuse, IN$40,659442024
Historic Elmhurst IncConnersville, IN$40,144422024
Bentonville Volunteer Firedepartment IncBentonville, IN$39,899222024
Whitewater Valley Railroad Assoc IncConnersville, IN$33,853442024
Fayette County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency ManagementConnersville, IN$31,911322024
Alquina Blue Arrows Park IncConnersville, IN$30,000112022
Imagine Performing ArtsConnersville, IN$30,000112024
Central Christian ChurchConnersville, IN$23,243442024
Alquina Blue Arrows ParkConnersville, IN$22,000112024
St Gabriel Catholic Church Connersville IncConnersville, IN$21,914332024
Masonic Temple CorporationConnersville, IN$19,925112022
Free & Accepted Masons of IndianaConnersville, IN$19,300112021
Discover ConnersvilleConnersville, IN$16,418112021
Hope Crisis Pregnancy CenterConnersville, IN$16,000222023
Higher Praise Worship CenterConnersville, IN$15,500112023
Fayette County Community Voices IncConnersville, IN$15,000112022
Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department IncGlenwood, IN$13,680112022
Whitewater College Programs IncConnersville, IN$13,300112023
Neighborhood Health Center IncRichmond, IN$12,850222024
Interlocal Community Action Program IncNew Castle, IN$10,000112022
Living Waters Assembly of God IncConnersville, IN$10,000112021
Shelter IncConnersville, IN$10,000112022
Connection CafeConnersville, IN$8,000112022
Everton Volunteer Fire Department IncorporatedConnersville, IN$7,000112023
Connersville Band BoostersConnersville, IN$6,000112024
Childrens Bureau IncIndianapolis, IN$5,033112021
America Press IncNew York, NY$5,010112021

14 of 33 (42%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 33 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.

Arts & Culture
3 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Environment
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202113$152,286$10,000
202220$288,172$10,112
202317$235,089$7,000
202419$206,866$8,750

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
$877K
New York
$5K

Down to the city

Connersville, IN
$755K
Syracuse, IN
$41K
Bentonville, IN
$40K
Glenwood, IN
$14K
Richmond, IN
$13K
New Castle, IN
$10K

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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.

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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 $10,000 -- 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 Fayette County Foundation Inc'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 19 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: 521 N Central Ave, Connersville, IN, 47331.

EIN 35-2232770 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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