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Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc
The community foundation of greater fort wayne inspires enduring philanthropy by encouraging charitable giving, conducting meaningful grantmaking, and leading community initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 259 grants below total $9,791,293 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,855,908 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,064,615 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 $10k59 grants · $438k
- $10k–50k157 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $1,071,647 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,033,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF FORT WAYNE | $250,180 |
| FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE | $200,000 |
| NEW STORY INC | $150,000 |
| VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION | $148,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PARKS AND RECREATION | $137,450 |
| ERIN'S HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $122,106 |
| CITY OF FORT WAYNE | $117,722 |
| PARKVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $117,600 |
| UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY | $116,757 |
| ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $114,898 |
| MATTHEW 25 INC | $114,535 |
| FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC | $111,221 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS | $106,082 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
312 repeat relationships — 202 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 43 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; $2.0M 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
- AUARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +291%
- AOAS OUR OWN NFP5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
- FWFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $985k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CLCONSILIARIS LLCone grant, 2023 · $155k
- 2C212 CREATIVE NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $75k
- SISALESFORCE INCone grant, 2022 · $72k
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 Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Eagle Creek Nature Conservancy and Preservation Inc. 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 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
347 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 347 of the 523 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE DEVELOPMENT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Crosswinds Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Wayne Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds AMANI FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TRICREEK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER 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 · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation
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 Community Foundation 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Southern Nazarene University — 1% 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.