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3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$245k
Granted FY2018
45
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$84kHealth$78kYouth Development$77kArts & Culture$57kEmployment$28kEducation$24kRecreation & Sports$16kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2018 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k43 grants · $185k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$613k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$50,000
GARRETT HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM$10,000
ADULT LIFE TRAINING$9,800
OUT OF A JAM INCORPORATED$8,900
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE #126$8,000
BLUE JACKET INC$7,500
EUELL A WILSON CENTER$6,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR$6,000
ST MARTIN'S HEALTHCARE INC$6,000
AMANI FAMILY SERVICES$6,000
FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE$5,000
COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK$5,000
SCIENCE CENTRAL INC$5,000
CROSSWINDS$5,000
ROAD TO RECOVERY INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OUT OF A JAM INCORPORATED: $9k → 12%RESPECTTEAM: $2k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $3k → 12%LIFELINE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF INDIANA: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $5k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF INDIANA: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $3k → 12%SCAN INC: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$151k · 17 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$151k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+26%

Still filing today

82%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BJ
    BLUE JACKET INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +109%
  • HM
    HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue ×11
  • HC
    HEARCARE CONNECTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CV
    CRIME VICTIM CARE OF ALLEN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SF
    Start Fort Wayne Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -86%
  • TB
    THE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +368%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Little Thinkers Inc

Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.

Human Services
2
Lifesteps Inc

Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.

Education
3
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.

Education
4
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
5
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.

Arts & Culture
6
Family to Family Inc dba Family Voices Indiana

Family Voices Indiana's Mission is to support families who have children and youth with health care needs and/or disabilities through eduction, outreach, and community partnerships.

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7
Goodwill Leads Inc

The mission of the excel center of northern indiana is to provide adults the coursework and support needed to earn an indiana high school diploma to pursue career and college pathways.

Education
8
Indiana Resource Center for Families With Special Needs Inc

The mission of insource is to provide parents, families, individuals and service providers in the state of indiana the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for…

Education
9
Turning Point Inc

Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…

Health
10
Indiana Co Child Day Care Program

Teaming with families to provide high quality child care and education services for all children.

Human Services
11
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…

Employment
12
Greater Fort Wayne Metro Chamber Alliance Inc

Greater fort wayne (gfw) inc. is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for fort wayne & allen county, indiana. at gfw inc., we focus on supporting local business, attracting new business, and improving our…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fraternal Order of Police #126. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr16%30%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr20%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr20%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
10%
191/1,960

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $50,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTMCMILLEN HEALTH — $10,000 · OtherCRIME VICTIM CARE OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $10,000 · OtherGARRETT HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — $10,000 · OtherFort Wayne Park Foundation — $10,000 · OtherADULT LIFE TRAINING INC — $9,800 · OtherCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $9,000 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE #126 — $8,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC — $8,000 · Other+24 more — $101,800 · Other+24 moreLutheran Social Services Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Socia…OUT OF A JAM INC — $8,900 · Human ServicesOUT OF A JAM I…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRAN…MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED F…EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesEAST ALLEN FAM…Crosswinds Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesCrosswinds IncIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $14,000 · HealthHEALTHIER MOM…HEARCARE CONNECTION INC — $10,000 · HealthHEARCARE CONN…ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC — $6,000 · HealthST MARTINS HE…TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $5,000 · HealthTURNSTONE CEN…ROAD TO RECOVERY INC — $5,000 · HealthROAD TO RECOV…DOWN SYNDROME ASSN OF NE INDIANA — $4,000 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME…MATTHEW 25 INC — $3,000 · HealthMATTHEW 25 IN…FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $6,500 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $650 · Arts & CultureBLUE JACKET INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $6,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentStart Fort Wayne Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$226,600Human Services$52,400Health$47,000Arts & Culture$29,650Crime & Legal$21,000Youth Development$19,000Community Improvement$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLUE JACKET INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLutheran Social Services Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStart Fort Wayne Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE #126 — $8,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCARING ABOUT PEOPLE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $7,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCrosswinds Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST WAYNE STREET CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROAD TO RECOVERY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF FORT WAYNE — $1,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESPECT360 INC RESPECTTEAM — $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY — $650 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The James Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…English-Bonter-Mitche…Community Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Howard P Arnold Found…The Waterfield Founda…Aws Foundation IncM E Raker Foundation …Lincoln Financial Fou…Edward D & Ione Auer …Kuhne Charles Char Fd…
The James Foundation IncIN67.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $275k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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