· Charitable trust
Charlie Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust
The trust is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious and educational purposes by supporting the purposes of various qualified charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of CHARLIE TIPPMANN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $476,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $521,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $404k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC | $40,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $29,000 |
| SAINT ANNE COMMUNITIES (SAC) | $25,000 |
| A MOTHER'S HOPE | $25,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 INC | $25,000 |
| REDEMPTION HOUSE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY JAIL CHAPLAINCY | $15,000 |
| HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES | $15,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HANNAH'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| VINCENT VILLAGE INC | $10,000 |
| HEARCARE CONNECTION INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +165%
- M2MATTHEW 25 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +0%
- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- SJST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SJST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -38%
- CSCatalpa Street Incone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
We believe women deserve a chance to triumph over trauma and a place to become whole.
Provide services in response to individual need
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…
To treat, promote healing and provide housing to women and their children affected by substance use disorders.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Hamilton center exists to provide quality behavioral healthcare, wellness, and human development services to our community.
Empowering individuals on their journey to lasting recovery. our team of dedicated professionals offer a dynamic blend of therapeutic support and personal empowerment. we dont just offer recovery; we provide a roadmap to your vibrant…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph Missions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 74 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 WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CATHOLIC RADIO GROUPINC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COUNTY JAIL CHAPLAINCY ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Redemption House Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds A MOTHER'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SONG MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THIRTEEN STEP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH THE PROTECTOR FDN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings Outreach Ministries of Southern Ohio ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds AMANI FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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 · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Aws 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 organization Charlie Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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