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Dahm Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dahm 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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$292kEducation$135kHealth$100kYouth Development$55kReligion$50kArts & Culture$40kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
MADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER$40,000
JOHN MALEY FOUNDATION$25,000
CARMELITE MONASTERY$25,000
LAFAYETTE DIOCESAN FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH$25,000
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING$25,000
FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE$25,000
YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%METROPOLITAN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSC (DBA YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE): $217k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $15k → 12%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%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 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
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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3
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
6
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
10
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
11
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
12
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Bureau 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $231,875 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCI…CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INCCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLLAFAYETTE DIOCESAN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherLAFAYETTE DIOCESAN FOUNDATION INCMAKE-A-WISH: $25,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISHJOHN MALEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherJOHN MALEY FOUNDATIONCARMELITE MONASTERY: $25,000 · OtherCARMELITE MONASTERYYMCA: $10,000 · OtherJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJames Whitco…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER INC FKA MADAME WALKER URBAN LIFE CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Health
Human Services$256,875Other$210,000Philanthropy$75,000Youth Development$55,000Arts & Culture$40,000Education$35,000Health$25,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $231,875 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMADAM WALKER LEGACY CENTER INC FKA MADAME WALKER URBAN LIFE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Lumina Foundation for…JD Finish Line Founda…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · JD Finish Line Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Dahm Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dahm Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dahm Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dahm Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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