· Public charity
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc
Arts united mobilizes resources to develop, coordinate, and support arts and culture, enhancing the quality of life and the economic viability of northeast indiana.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $165,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $270,161 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,505 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE BALLET | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| HEARTLAND SINGS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
| FAME | $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 |
| ARTLINK | $7,500 |
| CREATIVE WOMEN OF THE WORLD | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FWFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC7× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +45% · 28% of their budget
- HSHeartland Sings Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $377k · revenue +76%
- UPUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $293k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IIINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
- HCHeartland Chamber Chorale Incone grant, 2019 · $15k
- LALAFONTAINE ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Civic Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Women of the World 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Sings Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Artlink Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ANGOLA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ART AND MUSIC IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR ONE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Believe in a Dream Inc ↗
- Who funds WAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE & LIGHT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS MUSIC THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds LAFONTAINE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Start Fort Wayne Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Women of the World Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System 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 Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne 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.
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.