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3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc at a glance

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3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$84kHealth$78kYouth Development$77kArts & Culture$57kEmployment$28kEducation$24kRecreation & Sports$16kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 74 grants below total $235,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $262,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$613k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Building a Stronger Family$6,000
Fort Wayne Children's Choir$6,000
First Christian Church$6,000
Girl Scouts of Northern IN Michiana$5,400
Communities In Schools of Wayne County$5,000
Center For Nonviolence Inc$5,000
Cancer Services of NE Indiana$5,000
Blue Jacket Inc.$5,000
Children First Center$5,000
Circle U Help Center$5,000
Muncie Mission Ministries Incorporated$5,000
Soup Kitchen of Muncie$5,000
Center for Whitley County Youth Inc$5,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters$5,000
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OUT OF A JAM INCORPORATED: $9k → 12%RESPECTTEAM: $2k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $5k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 24 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
38

Total granted

$226k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    3× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +109%
  • HM
    HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +713%
  • CS
    CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • GH
    GARRETT HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SF
    Start Fort Wayne Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -86%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
45/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $50,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $14,000 · Other+73 more: $322,000 · Other+73 moreMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED F…Lutheran Social Services Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Socia…OUT OF A JAM INC: $9,900 · Human ServicesOUT OF A JAM I…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRAN…EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesEAST ALLEN FAM…Crosswinds Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCrosswinds IncGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesAPPLE TREE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Human Services+9 more: $18,900 · Human Services+9 moreHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $14,000 · HealthHEALTHIER…HEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $10,000 · HealthHEARCARE …MATTHEW 25 INC: $6,000 · HealthMATTHEW 2…ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $6,000 · HealthST MARTIN…TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5,000 · HealthTURNSTONE…ROAD TO RECOVERY INC: $5,000 · HealthROAD TO R…DOWN SYNDROME ASSN OF NE INDIANA: $4,000 · HealthDOWN SYND…THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 · HealthFORT 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 & CultureMUNCIE CIVIC THEATRE: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $650 · Arts & CultureBLUE JACKET INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalAMANI FAMILY SERVICES: $6,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC: $7,500 · EducationEAST WAYNE STREET CENTER INC: $5,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · EducationCENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · EducationEVERY CHILD CAN READ INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$386,000Human Services$85,300Health$52,500Arts & Culture$31,650Crime & Legal$31,000Youth Development$31,000Education$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $13,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $10,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLutheran Social Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStart Fort Wayne Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUT OF A JAM INC: $9,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE #126: $8,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARING ABOUT PEOPLE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF MUNCIE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetROAD TO RECOVERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMUNCIE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEAST WAYNE STREET CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCrosswinds Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLE TREE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE ALIVE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMIGOS THE RICHMOND LATINO CENTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 3rivers Credit Union Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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