· Public charity
Aws Foundation Inc
Our mission is to help children and adults with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities live as independently as possible, be included in the community and function at their highest potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $6,483,209 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,940,620 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $457,411 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $941k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE PARK FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DANIEL'S PLACE | $400,000 |
| QUESTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| VINCENT VILLAGE | $320,391 |
| THE LEAGUE | $284,407 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $227,500 |
| ARC OF LAGRANGE COUNTY | $214,503 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS JESTERS | $183,000 |
| EASTERSEALS ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC | $167,331 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA | $157,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CURLING CLUB | $150,000 |
| PATHFINDER SERVICES | $133,163 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF INDIANA INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY | $130,574 |
| BLUE JACKET INC | $130,000 |
| CAREY SERVICES INC | $105,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k 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
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +77%
- AUARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +48%
- CTCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +88%
Funded once
- NHNeighborhood Health Clinics Incone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
- NHNEW HAVEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +103%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +82%
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 Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is 2ND Floor Gallery Limited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
154 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. 154 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAREY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WABASH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds Fort Wayne Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFE ADULT DAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Joe's Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DANIELS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC NOBLE COUNTY FOUNDATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Huntington University ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY HEALTH SERVICES 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee
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 Aws Foundation 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.