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Marshall County Community

Plymouth, IN · EIN 35-1826870. Reported 119 grants totalling $2,484,333 to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

56organizations funded
$11,158median reported grant
$2,484,333granted, 2020-2023
56%of grantees funded again the next year
16%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 Marshall County Community, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 56% 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 $11,158. Half of what it reported fell between $6,870 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,007 and the largest $145,390. 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
47 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
40 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 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
Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center IncMishawaka, IN$391,884442023
Rees Theatre IncPlymouth, IN$225,390332023
Marshall County Historical Society IncPlymouth, IN$209,848442023
City of PlymouthPlymouth, IN$129,348332023
United Way of Marshall County IncPlymouth, IN$127,690442023
Bremen High School Athletics DepartmentBremen, IN$122,693642023
Scholarship America IncBremen, IN$114,809332022
Marshall County Lln IncPlymouth, IN$81,642112023
Potawatomi Park IncTippecanoe, IN$67,089442023
Marshall County Crossroads Regional Planning Team IncPlymouth, IN$60,000332023
Argos Dollars for ScholarsArgos, IN$55,650222022
Boy Scouts of AmericaSouth Bend, IN$55,583442023
Ancilla CollegeDonaldson, IN$55,569112020
First United Methodist ChurchPlymouth, IN$44,122442023
The Yeager Leadership Group LLCPlymouth, IN$42,787212023
Bremen Community CaresBremen, IN$40,000222022
Davids Courage IncPlymouth, IN$39,366442023
Plymouth High School Debate TeamPlymouth, IN$37,335542023
Marshall County Parks & Recreation DepartmentPlymouth, IN$34,594222022
Cultivate Culinary School and Catering IncSouth Bend, IN$32,666442023
Boys and Girls Club of Marshall County IncPlymouth, IN$29,935222023
The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care IncMishawaka, IN$26,487332022
Franklin College of IndianaFranklin, IN$25,322442023
Marian UniversityIndianapolis, IN$25,000112023
Marshall County Economicdevelopment CorporationPlymouth, IN$25,000112023
Beacon Health Foundation IncSouth Bend, IN$24,935332022
Holy Family Foundation for Catholi Education IncMonterey, IN$23,099442023
Tippecanoe Improvement AssocTippecanoe, IN$22,500112020
Culver Park & Recreation DeptCulver, IN$20,000222022
Town of CulverCulver, IN$20,000112020
Wythougan Valley Preservation Council IncPlymouth, IN$17,512222022
North Liberty Church of ChristNorth Liberty, IN$16,000112023
Big Brothers Big Sisters Southern Lake Michingan Region IncGoshen, IN$15,000112020
Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund IncCulver, IN$15,000112023
Marshall County NeighborhoodPlymouth, IN$15,000112020
Dustins PlacePlymouth, IN$14,750112020
Blessings in a Backpack IncLouisville, KY$13,200222022
Servants at Work IncIndianapolis, IN$12,400222022
Bremen Little League Baseball IncBremen, IN$12,000222022
Ivy Tech Community CollegeIndianapolis, IN$12,000112020
Plymouth Park and Recreation DepartmentPlymouth, IN$12,000112023
First United Church of Christ BremanBreman, IN$10,336222022
St Michael Catholic ChurchPlymouth, IN$10,014222022
Fleming Garden Christian ChurchIndianapolis, IN$10,000112023
Michiana Public Broadcasting CorporationSouth Bend, IN$10,000112023
The Bremen Partnership for Education IncBremen, IN$10,000112023
Intrepid Phoenix IncLa Porte, IN$8,000112020
Wild Rose Moon IncPlymouth, IN$8,000112023
Bourbon United Pentecostal Church Dba Kids Kingdom DaycareBourbon, IN$7,500112023
Maxinkuckee PlayersCulver, IN$7,500112023
Bremen Park DepartmentBremen, IN$7,216112023
Michiana Benevolent Society IncBremen, IN$6,575112023
Discover PlymouthPlymouth, IN$6,250112020
Serenity House IncAuburn, IN$6,000112023
Maxinkuckee Yacht Club IncCulver, IN$5,977112020
Corvilla IncSouth Bend, IN$5,760112020

29 of 56 (52%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 56 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.

Community Improvement
7 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202027$481,910$10,500
202129$584,716$11,158
202228$584,716$11,545
202335$832,991$11,451

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
$2.5M
Kentucky
$13K

Down to the city

Plymouth, IN
$1.2M
Mishawaka, IN
$418K
Bremen, IN
$313K
South Bend, IN
$129K
Tippecanoe, IN
$90K
Culver, IN
$68K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of St Joseph County Inc9 shared recipientsUniversity of Notre Dame Du Lac8 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation8 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 $11,158 -- 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 Marshall County Community's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 2680 Miller Dr Suite 120, Plymouth, IN, 46563.

EIN 35-1826870 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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