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Dekko Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2021
125
Itemized grants FY2021
74
Organizations funded FY2021
36%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$12M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$13,820
Largest grant, FY2021
$2,325,000
Organizations funded a year
74 to 123
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Total assets, FY2021
$236M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 36% of the organizations Dekko Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $886k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202174$11M36%
FY202080$9.5M33%
FY2019112$9.0M38%
FY2018123$10M54%
FY2017117$8.3Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$32MPhilanthropy$4.3MCommunity Improvement$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.5MYouth Development$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MArts & Culture$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oak Farm School Inc$17,297,480488%
The Community Learning Center Inc$3,633,3503n/a
Trine University$2,775,00051%
Garrett Community Center$1,472,405571%
Freedom Academy Inc$1,098,850327%
Graceland University$1,097,65451%
Indiana Youth Institute Inc$570,10056%
Cole Center Family YMCA$535,400514%
Friends of the Eckhart Public Library Incorporated$529,5004n/a
North Webster Community Public Libr$503,2792n/a
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All grantees of Dekko Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oak Farm School Inc$17,297,480488%
The Community Learning Center Inc$3,633,3503n/a
Trine University$2,775,00051%
Garrett Community Center$1,472,405571%
Freedom Academy Inc$1,098,850327%
Graceland University$1,097,65451%
Indiana Youth Institute Inc$570,10056%
Cole Center Family YMCA$535,400514%
Friends of the Eckhart Public Library Incorporated$529,5004n/a
North Webster Community Public Libr$503,2792n/a
Noble Trails Inc$403,500444%
Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc$387,67651%
Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc$384,00038%
Center for Whitley County Youth Inc$363,248531%
Science Central Inc$325,000215%
J Kruse Education Center Inc$300,000262%
Wagon Wheel Theatre Inc$300,000115%
Early Childhood Alliance Inc$295,00032%
Youth for Christ of Northern Indiana Inc$220,0002n/a
Whitko Community School$205,0004n/a
Baker Youth Club$201,000317%
Albion Community Center Inc$200,500294%
Syracuse-Wawasee Park Foundation I$200,0002n/a
Athens City Schools$182,4305n/a
Joe's Kids Inc$170,00055%
Lakeland School Corporation$163,5004n/a
Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne$163,07640%
Stroh Church of Christ Inc$159,4653n/a
City of Chariton$150,0001n/a
Lindsay Lane Christian Academy$133,20032%
Gary Cares$130,800250%
LAMONI COMMUNITY DAY CARE dba FUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER$130,500233%
Lifeline Youth & Family Services Inc$127,90020%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$125,00040%
St John Lutheran Church & School$109,7003n/a
Harold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc$105,00043%
Grace Schools$105,00030%
Lucas County Fair Association$100,000127%
The Honeywell Foundation Inc$100,00011%
TROY Center Inc$99,32056%
United Montessori Schools of Indiana$92,5004n/a
Noble County Saddle Club Inc$89,0002n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc$88,0003n/a
Northeast Indiana Foundation Inc$87,500119%
Lagrange First Church of God$85,7542n/a
Fort Wayne Park Foundation$75,00018%
Creston Arts Inc$75,000119%
Churubusco Youth Foundation$75,0001n/a
White's Residential & Family Services Inc$60,00020%
Babe Whitley County Inc$60,000421%
Westview School Corporation$59,9074n/a
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc$57,50022%
Operation Read Inc$55,000318%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$50,00010%
Hope Learning Center$50,00029%
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc$50,00011%
Bobcat Youth League$50,0001n/a
New Beginnings Preschool and Child Care Inc$50,000116%
Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation$46,7123n/a
West Noble School Corporation$45,4802n/a
Apple Tree Center Inc$45,225119%
Clarke County Hospital Foundation$45,000115%
Diagonal Community Development Corporation$45,000128%
Cahoots Coffee Cafe Inc$45,000218%
Southwest Montessori Academy Inc$43,50032%
Athens Arts League$42,9001n/a
Learn to Read Council of Athens & L$40,000416%
Indiana Alliance of Ymcas$40,00015%
Maumee Valley Antique Steam & Gas Association Inc$40,000137%
Lake City BMX$40,0001n/a
Dekalb County Central United School District$39,4613n/a
Whitley County Consolidated Schools$37,8174n/a
Northeast Indiana Public Radio Inc$37,00012%
Professional Animal Retirement Center Inc$35,86527%
YMCA of Steuben County Inc$35,00013%
Bear Lake Camp Inc$35,00024%
Fort Wayne Medical Society Foundation Inc$30,00020%
Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church$29,7502n/a
Community Grace Brethren Church Inc$25,9502n/a
Humane Society of Noble County Inc$25,65014%
Decatur County Development Corp$25,000120%
United Way of Athens-Limestone County$24,50024%
Steuben County Economic Development Corporation$24,00015%
Hamilton Church of Christ$22,7371n/a
Dekalb County Eastern Community School District$22,5001n/a
College Mentors for Kids Inc$22,50021%
Historic Forks of the Wabash Inc$20,000116%
First Church of Christ at Garrett Indiana$20,0001n/a
Columbia City Band Boosters$20,000223%
Teen Parents Succeeding Inc$18,638314%
Bowen Health Inc$16,04030%
Harvest With a Heart$16,040213%
Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc$16,000120%
Lucas County Arts Council$15,963214%
Penfield Children's Center Inc$15,00010%
Angola Kids League Inc$15,000112%
Stone's Trace Historical Society$14,2945n/a
Lakewood Park Baptist Church & Lakewood Park Christian School$13,8201n/a
Common Grace Ministries Inc$11,50034%
Kosciusko Community YMCA Inc$10,00010%
Lighthouse Childcare and Learning$10,0001n/a
Cornerstone Christian School$9,5001n/a
Indiana Troopers Youth Services Inc$9,00035%
Ryans Place Inc$8,00012%
Iowa Association of Business & Industry$6,60030%
Fort Wayne Ballet Inc$6,00020%
Dayspring Community Church$6,0003n/a
Athens Storytelling Festival Inc$6,000126%
Embassy Theatre Foundationinc$5,9001n/a
Lakeland Christian Academy Association Inc$5,50530%
United Way of Whitley County Inc$5,05022%
Erins House for Grieving Children Inc$5,0001n/a
Soarin Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Inc$5,00011%
Victory Christian Fellowship Assembly of God$5,0001n/a
Goshen College Inc$5,00010%
Little Lambs Preschool Daycare Ministry Inc$5,00012%
Windsong Pictures Inc$4,400114%
Advance Rome City Inc$3,9301n/a
Living History Farms Foundation$3,75010%
Kosciusko County Shelter for Abuse Inc$3,70020%
Women of Grace USA$3,5001n/a
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc$3,50010%
Interfaith Mission Inc$3,5001n/a
Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum Inc$3,5002n/a
Kendallville Windmill Museum and Historical Society Inc$3,45042%
Respect360 Inc Respectteam$3,0001n/a
Agaitas Inc$2,50016%
United Way of Dekalb County Inc$2,5001n/a
Life & Family Services Inc$2,40022%
Reason 4 Hope Inc$2,0001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc$2,00010%
North Webster Daycare Center Inc$2,0001n/a
Passages Inc$2,00010%
Christ Child Society of Fort Wayne$2,00021%
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council Inc$2,00010%
Spirit of Athens Alabama Inc$2,00012%
Church of the Good Shepherd Inc$2,0001n/a
Wesleyan Church Corporation$1,7501n/a
Madison Academy Inc$1,66610%
Mayflower Heritage Christian School$1,3841n/a
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center$1,00010%
United Way of Allen County Inc$1,00010%
Indiana Policy Review Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Immaculate Conception Church$5001n/a
Dekalb County Horsemens Association$50011%
Halstad Living Center$5001n/a
Noble Houseinc$30010%
Women's Care Center Inc$25010%
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc$25010%
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc$20010%
Grace Christian Church Incorporated$2001n/a
Butler Youth Evangelistic Association Inc$20010%
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc$1001n/a
Ringgold County Outdoor Alliance$1001n/a
Steuben County Literacy Coalition$1001n/a
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc$10010%
St Martins Healthcare Inc$1001n/a
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc$10010%

Plus 120 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dekko Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOak Farm School Inc: $17,297,480 over 4y, 88% of budgetTrine University: $2,775,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGarrett Community Center: $1,472,405 over 5y, 71% of budgetFreedom Academy Inc: $1,098,850 over 3y, 27% of budgetGraceland University: $1,097,654 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana Youth Institute Inc: $570,100 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCole Center Family YMCA: $535,400 over 5y, 14% of budgetNoble Trails Inc: $403,500 over 4y, 44% of budgetFort Wayne Zoological Society Inc: $387,676 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern in Inc: $384,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetCenter for Whitley County Youth Inc: $363,248 over 5y, 31% of budgetScience Central Inc: $325,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetJ Kruse Education Center Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetWagon Wheel Theatre Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetEarly Childhood Alliance Inc: $295,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBaker Youth Club: $201,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetAlbion Community Center Inc: $200,500 over 2y, 94% of budgetJoe's Kids Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne: $163,076 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLindsay Lane Christian Academy: $133,200 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGary Cares: $130,800 over 2y, 50% of budgetLAMONI COMMUNITY DAY CARE dba FUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER: $130,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc: $127,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarold W McMillen Center for Health Education Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGrace Schools: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLucas County Fair Association: $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetThe Honeywell Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTROY Center Inc: $99,320 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetNortheast Indiana Foundation Inc: $87,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCreston Arts Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWhite's Residential & Family Services Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBabe Whitley County Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetIowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc: $57,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOperation Read Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHope Learning Center: $50,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetFort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Beginnings Preschool and Child Care Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetApple Tree Center Inc: $45,225 over 1y, 19% of budgetClarke County Hospital Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDiagonal Community Development Corporation: $45,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCahoots Coffee Cafe Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSouthwest Montessori Academy Inc: $43,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLearn to Read Council of Athens & L: $40,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetIndiana Alliance of Ymcas: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMaumee Valley Antique Steam & Gas Association Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 37% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 102.

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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.

Aws Foundation IncIN76.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aws Foundation Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The James Foundation Inc · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Whitley County Community Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc Aka K21 Health Foundation

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.

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About Dekko Foundation Inc

How much does Dekko Foundation Inc give?
Dekko Foundation Inc reported 125 itemized grants totaling $12,012,705, out of $12,552,492 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 123 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Dekko Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (4%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Dekko Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Oak Farm School Inc ($17M), The Community Learning Center Inc ($3.6M), Trine University ($2.8M).
Does Dekko Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dekko Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dekko Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aws Foundation Inc, Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn.
Where is Dekko Foundation Inc based?
Dekko Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 287 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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