· Private foundation
Dekko Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 125 grants below total $12,012,705 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,552,492 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $539,787 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k54 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $875k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+9 grants · $8.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAK FARM SCHOOL, INC | $2,325,000 |
| OAK FARM SCHOOL, INC | $2,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOBLE COUNTY | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC | $500,000 |
| FREEDOM ACADEMY INC | $450,000 |
| ECKHART PUBLIC LIBRARY | $330,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WHITLEY COUNTY | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC | $233,333 |
| GRACELAND UNIVERSITY | $204,302 |
| GARRETT-KEYSER-BUTLER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $200,000 |
| J KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER | $175,000 |
| CITY OF CHARITON | $150,000 |
| WHITKO COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $150,000 |
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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2021, 69 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $886k 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
- TUTrine University5× · 2017–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +135%
- GCGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +22% · 71% of their budget
- FAFREEDOM ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- OFOAK FARM SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
- COCITY OF COLUMBIA CITYone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- SMST MALACHY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $350k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Steel city academy will empower the students of gary with the most rigorous academic skills, cultural fluency and depth of character so they can choose from boundless opportunities and strengthen the community of gary.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
Child day care center
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,…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. ymca programs focus on four core values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. we serve men, women, and children of…
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving, to enhance the spirit of community, and to improve the quality of life in the wayne county, indiana, area now and for future generations.
Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.
Arts for learning indiana brings the arts to your school community to champion creative learning, innovate education, and transform lives.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Lambs Preschool Daycare Ministry 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 34 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) — 1% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 287 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 OAK FARM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds NOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Cole Center Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds NOBLE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds South Central Iowa Community Founda ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds J KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE-WAWASEE PARK FOUNDATION I ↗
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: 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
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.
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