· Private foundation
Brian & Sonya Emerick Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $35,000 |
| EMMANUEL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $24,000 |
| UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| STAR 883 | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $4,000 |
| HUNTINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH | $2,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S ZOO | $1,886 |
| A HOPE CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WHITLEY CO | $1,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| WHITLEY CTY 4-H | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HUHuntington University7× · 2019–2025 · $146k · revenue +31%
- SESTAR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
- FWFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $2k
- OONECAUSEone grant, 2023 · $1k
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADUone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
Indiana wesleyan university is a christ-centered academic community committed to changing the world by developing students in character, scholarship, and leadership.
Indianapolis christian school system strives to honor christ in partnership with parents and the christian community by educating and motivating students to excel in future academic pursuits, to develop a confident christian worldview, and…
The school's objective is to provide an excellent, christ-centered education, equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership, and service.
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Child evangelism fellowship is a bible-centered, interdenominational, worldwide organization, composed of born-again believers whose purpose and mission are to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ, disciple…
Provides conference center and camping facilities for religious, educational and charitable groups in central and southern indiana.
The Mission of WBCL is to communicate God's redemptive love, grace, and truth through captivating media.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Our mission is to honor and obey god by providing hope and healing to children and families, who may then bless others. the residential, foster care, adoption and other programs served nearly 500 individuals during the year.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Huntington University ↗
- Who funds UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Passages Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL & CHARITABLE FU ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds LAMB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Barn Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LC NATURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Whitley County Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Brotherhood Mutual Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Parkview Health System Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brian & Sonya Emerick Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian & Sonya Emerick Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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