· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 69 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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