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Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$867kEducation$568kAnimals$530kHousing & Shelter$428kCrime & Legal$400kHealth$358kEnvironment$169kPhilanthropy$135kOther$1.9M
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $850k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$250,000
VINCENT VILLAGE INC$200,000
BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINIS$200,000
THE LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND & DISABLED$150,000
LC NATURE PARK INC$80,000
TROY CENTER INC$75,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$73,195
GIVING GARDENS OF INDIANA INC$70,000
LITTLE RIVER LAND TRUST CORPORATION$60,000
OAK FARM SCHOOL INC$60,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE FOUNDA$51,100
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FOR$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$50,000
PATHFINDER SERVICES INC$50,000
BLUE JACKET INC$50,000
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 (FY22–25, $832k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TATUM ROBOTICS FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 8%GARRETT COMMUNITY (JAM) CENTER: $50k → 9%YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY: $100k → 9%YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY: $50k → 9%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $200k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $200k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $100k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $50k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $25k → 12%IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 12%ALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $20k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 17 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-6%

Still filing today

88%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • AU
    ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
  • VV
    VINCENT VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +28%
  • YO
    YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +331%

Funded once

  • TC
    TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $155k · revenue -23%
  • FS
    FW SOCIETY OF ST VINNCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • TC
    TURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLED
    one grant, 2023 · $150k

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
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

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

Arts & Culture
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Indianapolis Art Center Inc

The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
4
Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership Inc

The northeast indiana regional partnership, inc. (partnership) mission is to drive business investment and strengthen northeast indiana's global competitiveness and economic resilency. through its combined efforts the partnership supports…

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5
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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6
Northwest Indiana Realtors Association Inc

The mission of nira is to help our members be productive in their business and achieve ongoing profitability through targeted education and ethical and professional standards. we are the visible voice for the real estate interests of the…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Fort Wayne Ballet Inc

To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.

Arts & Culture
9
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…

Human Services
10
Pearl Arts Inc

Pearl Arts, Inc. exists to serve Northeast Indiana as an interactive community arts, education, entrepreneurial, and engagement destination.

Arts & Culture
11
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
12
Northeast Indiana Foundation Inc

The northeast indiana foundation's mission is support the partnership through sustained leadership, collaboration, transformative initiatives and the alignment of resources toward shared regional goals.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Professional Animal Retirement Center Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr20%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr12%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr20%38%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
9%
302/3,374

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

71 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. 71 of the 92 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
21/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $292,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINIS — $200,000 · OtherBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISFW SOCIETY OF ST VINNCENT DE PAUL — $150,000 · OtherFW SOCIETY OF ST VINNCENT DE PAULTURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLED — $150,000 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLEDFORT WAYNE SWIM ALLIANCE — $100,000 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $155,175 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH…LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $150,000 · OtherLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INCACRES Inc — $126,000 · Other+42 more — $1,243,401 · Other+42 moreARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureARTS UNITED OF GREATER…FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF A…FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $154,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF GRAC…YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF STEUBE…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRAN…METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $75,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN Y…GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesGARRETT COMMUN…ISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $30,700 · Human Services+5 more — $61,569 · Human Services+5 moreOAK FARM SCHOOL INC — $128,177 · EducationOAK FARM …TROY Center Inc — $115,000 · EducationTROY Cent…SPECIALTY TUTORING INC — $75,000 · EducationSPECIALTY…CORE INC — $62,600 · EducationCORE INCQuesta Education Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationQuesta Ed…THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $37,500 · EducationTHE LITER…Huntington University — $30,000 · EducationSouthwest Montessori Academy Inc — $22,000 · EducationBelieve in a Dream Inc — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $27,575 · EducationLC NATURE PARK INC — $380,000 · AnimalsPROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC — $135,000 · Animals+1 more — $15,000 · AnimalsVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $28,109 · Housing & ShelterBLUE JACKET INC — $300,000 · Crime & LegalAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,566,576Arts & Culture$1,324,500Human Services$867,269Education$567,852Animals$530,000Housing & Shelter$428,109Crime & Legal$400,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $400,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $400,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetLC NATURE PARK INC — $380,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC — $300,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $155,175 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC — $135,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetOAK FARM SCHOOL INC — $128,177 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetACRES Inc — $126,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $120,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTROY Center Inc — $115,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $85,299 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $83,690 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC — $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetGiving Gardens of Indiana Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPFW FOUNDATION — $51,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPATHFINDER SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE SWIM & WELLNESS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $37,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $36,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $33,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCreative Women of the World Inc — $32,260 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $30,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHuntington University — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAFONTAINE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $28,109 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwest Montessori Academy Inc — $22,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOHUDDLE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Community Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Aws Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…The Waterfield Founda…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Surack Family Foundat…The James Foundation …M E Raker Foundation …Edward D & Ione Auer …McMillen Foundation I…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA75.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · McMillen Foundation Inc

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 Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    29report 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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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