How much did ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$2.6MCrime & Legal$230kRecreation & Sports$192kCommunity Improvement$116kEducation$68kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$17kHuman Services$7kOther$1.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

filmculturallypresentproductionsoffersculturalchildren's

2019

justice legallegal representationrepresentation educationeducation lowlow incomeincome neighborsneighbors way

2020

resiliencesciencedowntowntrailsagesartisticyoutheatre

2021

restartsciencefilmtrailsdowntownartisticages

2022

resilience recoverybelieveentrepreneurshiplearningtrailsculturalspace

2023

believetrailsadvocate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $86k
$10k–50k8 grants · $80k

$8,628

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants

HEARTLAND SINGS$10,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR$10,000
FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE$10,000
SCIENCE CENTRAL$10,000
FORT WAYNE BALLET$10,000
FAME$10,000
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC$10,000
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$10,000
ARCH$9,850
FORT WAYNE PARKS & RECREATION$8,628
FORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE$8,500
FORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE$8,000
THREE RIVERS MUSIC THEATRE$7,500
CREATIVE WOMEN OF THE WORLD$7,500
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 27 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+53%

Still filing today

100%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

FW
Fort Wayne Philharmonic
7× · 2018–2024 · $964k · revenue +17%
FW
Fort Wayne Ballet
6× · 2018–2024 · $424k · revenue +24% · 28% of their budget
HS
HEARTLAND SINGS
6× · 2018–2024 · $368k · revenue +45%

Funded once

IT
INDIANA TECH
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
MU
Manchester University
one grant, 2019 · $22k
HC
Heartland Chamber Chorale Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +218% · 39% of their budget

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.

Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc

Rooted in the heart of Indiana, Indiana Repertory Theatre is committed to building a vital, vibrant, and informed community through the transformational power of live theatre. The IRT produces inclusive, top-quality, professional theatre…

Arts & Culture

Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne

Arts united is a local arts agency that develops, coordinates, and supports arts and culture in northeast indiana.

Arts & Culture

Music Theatre Wichita

Music theatre wichita is dedicated to stimulating and nurturing interest in musical theatre by producing and/or presenting broadway quality productions while entertaining and educating patrons, the community and theatrical artists.

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

The Detroit Institute of Arts

The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.

Arts & Culture

Musical Theatre Festival Inc

To promote the arts, to foster and advance the development of and to stimulate community interest in the muscial, dramatic and peforming arts.

Arts & Culture

Interlochen Center for the Arts

To support the interlochen arts group and the interlochen arts camp in the fulfillment of their educational and other purposes

Arts & Culture

Pearl Arts Inc

Pearl arts, inc. exists as an interactive community arts, education, and engagement organization for all of northeast indiana. the organization invites people of all ages to gather for concerts, arts experiences, educational programs,…

Arts & Culture

Lafayette Ballet Theatre

The mission of lafayette ballet theatre is to provide artistic dance education and cultural programs in the community. lafayette ballet theatre encourages and stimulates development of the performing arts through the offering of…

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Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Dance Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arch 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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% 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 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

163/2,212

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,572,633Other$1,397,924Crime & Legal$229,852Recreation & Sports$192,123Community Improvement$115,976Education$67,841Youth Development$21,668

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

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.

Community Foundation of GreaterIN59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · 3rivers Credit Union 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 organisation ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Downtown Angola Coalition.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237369770 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Downtown Angola Coalition, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 62% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne?

Find your warmest path to Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne?

More from the funding graph

ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne?

More from the funding graph