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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.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.1MCrime & Legal$230kEnvironment$140kCommunity Improvement$113kRecreation & Sports$61kYouth Development$51kEducation$42kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $165,656, the rows itemized in this filing. The $270,161 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,505 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
$8,628
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WAYNE BALLET$10,000
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC$10,000
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$10,000
FAME$10,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR$10,000
HEARTLAND SINGS$10,000
SCIENCE CENTRAL$10,000
FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Creative Arts Council of Wells County: $7k → 9%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 27 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$4.6M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +66% · 28% of their budget
  • HS
    Heartland Sings Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $377k · revenue +76%
  • UP
    UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $293k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • II
    INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • HC
    Heartland Chamber Chorale Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • LA
    LAFONTAINE ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +218% · 39% of their budget
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
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.

Arts & Culture
2
Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective

A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.

Arts & Culture
3
Pearl Arts Inc

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

Arts & Culture
4
Fort Wayne Civic Theatre Inc

Fort wayne civic theatre's mission is to entertain, enlighten, inspire, educate and enrich the community through quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
5
Constellation Stage & Screen Inc

The mission of Constellation Stage & Screen is to produce world-class theater and film that impacts the national performing arts industry through new work development. Constellation's productions, community events, and education programs…

Arts & Culture
6
Arena Dinner Theatre Inc

Arena Dinner Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana, aims to create meaningful, high-quality productions that engage, educate, and include the community, paired with an inviting dining experiance. See Schedule O for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Fort Wayne Youtheatre Inc

The mission of the fort wayne youtheatre is to educate, engage, and entertain area youth and families through theatre arts. founded by mrs. chan ray and mrs. lester jacobs in 1934 as part of old fort players (now the civic theatre), the…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation Inc

The Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation is proud to provide its participants with a bigger challenge as actors, singers, dancers, musicians and technicians. IMTF is driven to present stage productions for the community of Fort Wayne that…

Arts & Culture
10
Storefront Theatre of Indianapolis Inc

Storefront Theatre of Indianapolis is a small professional not-for-profit theatre company that focuses on new plays by underserved playwrights Storefront admissions are pay-what-you-want in order to increase access to our programming Cost…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Northern Indiana Clay Alliance Inc

Northern Indiana Clay Alliance advances ceramic arts education and community engagement in the Michiana region by providing programming, resources and events that support artists, students and arts enthusiasts, while working toward a…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Children's Choir Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $964,388 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INCFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $346,525 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INCUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $292,501 · Arts & CultureUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $243,514 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INCFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $207,805 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE BALLET INCCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY: $115,236 · Arts & CultureArtlink Inc: $114,735 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $111,583 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $106,768 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $166,838 · Arts & Culture+7 moreFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $431,240 · OtherFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INCHeartland Sings Inc: $377,168 · OtherHeartland Sings IncFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $198,687 · OtherFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INCFORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC: $126,474 · OtherFORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INCAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $126,462 · OtherAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INCARCH INC: $59,744 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ART AND MUSIC IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION INC: $49,735 · Other+8 more: $74,014 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC: $229,852 · Crime & LegalFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC: $192,123 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN ANGOLA COALITION INC: $105,976 · Community ImprovementStart Fort Wayne Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $25,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC: $22,641 · EducationBelieve in a Dream Inc: $20,000 · EducationMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $6,760 · EducationALL FOR ONE PRODUCTIONS INC: $27,278 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,669,893Other$1,443,524Crime & Legal$229,852Recreation & Sports$192,123Community Improvement$115,976Education$74,601Youth Development$27,278

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $964,388 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $431,240 over 7y, 28% of budgetHeartland Sings Inc: $377,168 over 7y, 20% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $346,525 over 7y, 45% of budgetUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $292,501 over 6y, 25% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $243,514 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC: $229,852 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $207,805 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC: $198,687 over 8y, 15% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC: $192,123 over 4y, 35% of budgetFORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC: $126,474 over 4y, 42% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $126,462 over 5y, 14% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY: $115,236 over 3y, 62% of budgetArtlink Inc: $114,735 over 7y, 15% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $111,583 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $106,768 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetAllen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc: $65,778 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetARCH INC: $59,744 over 4y, 34% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ART AND MUSIC IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION INC: $49,735 over 4y, 13% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $29,069 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALL FOR ONE PRODUCTIONS INC: $27,278 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $25,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC: $22,641 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIRE & LIGHT PRODUCTIONS INC: $16,350 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHREE RIVERS MUSIC THEATRE CO: $15,500 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetLAFONTAINE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $12,641 over 1y, 39% of budgetStart Fort Wayne Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Women of the World Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $6,807 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $6,760 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…Edward M Wilson Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…Lincoln Financial Fou…The James Foundation …Edward D & Ione Auer …Flora Dale Krouse Fou…Howard P Arnold Found…Ardelle and Theresa G…Aws Foundation IncParkview Health Syste…
Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN48.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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