Washington County Community
Salem, IN · EIN 35-1883377. Reported 90 grants totalling $2,602,983 to 39 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 Washington County Community, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 39 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. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $13,371. Half of what it reported fell between $6,925 and $30,143; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $209,201. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington County Historical Society Inc | Salem, IN | $560,651 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Washington Dollars for Scholars | Salem, IN | $523,720 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Salem | Salem, IN | $232,184 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Purdue University Global Inc | West Lafayette, IN | $216,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Washington County Young Mens Christian Association | Salem, IN | $149,301 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Washington School Corporation | Campbellsburg, IN | $121,731 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Align Southern Indiana Inc | Floyds Knobs, IN | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Dollywood Foundation | Pigeion Forge, TN | $84,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salem Community Schools | Salem, IN | $69,316 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Washington School Corporaton | Salem, IN | $56,451 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Awareness Washington County Inc | Salem, IN | $45,021 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hoosier Uplands Economic Development Corporation | Mitchell, IN | $35,540 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc | Salem, IN | $35,369 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dare to Care Inc | Louisville, KY | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lifespring Inc | Jeffersonvlle, IN | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jackson Township Volunteer Fire Department Corporation | Palmyra, IN | $29,095 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wonder Valley Christian Assembly Inc | Salem, IN | $23,703 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aveda Frederics Institute | Carmel, IN | $22,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $22,486 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Indiana University Southeast | New Albany, IN | $21,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Salem United Methodist Church | Salem, IN | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Horners Chapel Memorial Fund | Fredericksburg, IN | $17,375 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pekin Community Betterment Organization Inc | Pekin, IN | $15,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Washington County Food Bank Inc | Salem, IN | $14,365 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southern Hllls Church | Salem, IN | $13,743 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Southern Indiana | Evansville, IN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Department | Salem, IN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington County Ambulance Service | Salem, IN | $10,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northside Christian Church | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc | Woodburn, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington County Sheriff's Department | Salem, IN | $7,298 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue River Services Inc | Corydon, IN | $6,580 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warming Station | Salem, IN | $6,225 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of Salem Inc | Salem, IN | $6,054 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Home Stretch Foundation | Salem, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of New Pekin | Pekin, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indiana Institute of Technology Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,695 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA of Washington County Indiana | Salem, IN | $5,630 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
21 of 39 (54%) 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 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.
- Purdue University
PROGRAMMING - FOOD AND NUTRITION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 39 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 | 24 | $659,511 | $23,875 |
| 2022 | 24 | $762,019 | $10,575 |
| 2023 | 20 | $583,390 | $13,200 |
| 2024 | 22 | $598,063 | $12,500 |
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
95% 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.
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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 $13,371 -- 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 Washington County Community'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 1707 North Shelby Street 100, Salem, IN, 47167.
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