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Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc
The community foundation of dekalb county promotes community philanthropy by offering local citizens the opportunity to create a charitable legacy that will sustain and improve life in our county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’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 26 grants below total $1,594,303 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,081,923 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $487,620 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 $10k11 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF AUBURN | $1,220,761 |
| UNITED WAY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC | $63,250 |
| AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG AUTOMOBILE | $31,554 |
| AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY OUTDOOR THEATER INC | $24,000 |
| YMCA OF DEKALB COUNTY INC | $22,501 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER NORTHEAST | $21,200 |
| NORTHEASTERN CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES | $18,872 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $15,000 |
| JUDY A MORRILL RECREATION CENTER | $14,619 |
| DEKALB COUNTY HORSEMEN'S ASSOC | $13,311 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $11,244 |
| WARM A HEART COMMUNITY | $10,350 |
| IMPACT INSTITUTE | $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 (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- DHDEKALB HUMANE SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $285k · revenue +129%
- AAAUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +106%
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- DMDEKALB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue +6%
- IOIMAGE OF HOPE RANCHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +58%
- GPGARRETT PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $14k
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.
Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…
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Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Parkview wabash hospital, inc. works to improve the health of our communities and provides quality health services to all who entrust their care to us.
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Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.
Living well in wabash county serves one in four wabash county residents of all ages while fostering senior independence with the mission to assist the citizens of wabash county in meeting their social, physical, economic, and mobility…
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Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The decatur shelby county ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, income, races and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Image of Hope Ranch. 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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 69 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 DEKALB HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER YOUTH EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc ↗
- Who funds ECKHART LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER-NORTHEAST INDIANA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Dekalb County Horsemens Association ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION 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: United Way of Dekalb County Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Dekko Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Peoples Charitable Foundation Inc · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Lincoln Financial 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 Dekalb County Community 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.
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