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Dekko Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dekko Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2021
125
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2021 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 125 grants below total $12,012,705, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,552,492 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $539,787 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k54 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $875k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+9 grants · $8.4M
$13,820
Median grant
6
States reached
$236M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAK FARM SCHOOL, INC$2,325,000
OAK FARM SCHOOL, INC$2,000,000
COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC$1,000,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOBLE COUNTY$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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 116 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2021, 69 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
135

Total granted

$41M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    Trine University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +135%
  • GC
    GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +22% · 71% of their budget
  • FA
    FREEDOM ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • OF
    OAK FARM SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2.5M
  • CO
    CITY OF COLUMBIA CITY
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • SM
    ST MALACHY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $350k
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.

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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Steel City Academy Inc

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.

Education
3
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

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4
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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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 County Ymca (5647)

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…

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7
Early Learning Indiana Inc

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)

Human Services
8
Wayne County Indiana Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Wabash County Business Alliance Inc

Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.

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10
Young Audiences of Indiana Inc

Arts for learning indiana brings the arts to your school community to champion creative learning, innovate education, and transform lives.

Arts & Culture
11
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
12
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

132 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/132
Grantees still filing
82/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAK FARM SCHOOL INC: $17,297,480 · EducationOAK FARM SCHOOL INCTrine University: $2,775,000 · EducationTrine UniversityGRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $1,097,654 · Education+11 more: $1,178,573 · EducationOAK FARM SCHOOL INC: $2,505,500 · OtherOAK FARM SCHOOL INCCITY OF COLUMBIA CITY: $1,000,000 · OtherCITY OF COLUMBIA CITYGARRETT-KEYSER-BUTLER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $793,054 · OtherWAWASEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $548,910 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ECKHART PUBLIC LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $529,500 · OtherNORTH WEBSTER COMMUNITY PUBLIC LIBR: $503,279 · OtherUNION COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION OF AFTON: $500,500 · Other+135 more: $8,518,390 · Other+135 moreNOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,678,649 · PhilanthropyNOBLE COU…South Central Iowa Community Founda: $423,550 · PhilanthropySouth Cen…DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $345,000 · PhilanthropyDEKALB CO…WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $344,600 · PhilanthropyWHITLEY C…KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $342,885 · PhilanthropyKOSCIUSKO…+4 more: $225,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $3,633,350 · Community Improvement+5 more: $281,500 · Community ImprovementGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,472,405 · Human ServicesINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC: $570,100 · Human ServicesCole Center Family YMCA: $535,400 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $163,076 · Human ServicesLAMONI COMMUNITY DAY CARE dba FUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER: $130,500 · Human ServicesLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc: $127,900 · Human Services+8 more: $318,863 · Human ServicesSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $325,000 · Arts & CultureJ KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureWAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSYRACUSE-WAWASEE PARK FOUNDATION I: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $173,763 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM ACADEMY INC: $1,098,850 · Employment
Education$22,348,707Other$14,899,133Philanthropy$4,359,684Community Improvement$3,914,850Human Services$3,613,244Arts & Culture$1,348,763Employment$1,098,850

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetNOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,678,649 over 5y, 20% 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 budgetSouth Central Iowa Community Founda: $423,550 over 5y, 5.1% 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 budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $345,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $344,600 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetKOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $342,885 over 5y, 1.6% 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 budgetLIMESTONE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 4y, 28% 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 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.

  • 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 South Central Iowa Community Founda ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL 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 ↗

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 IncKosciusko County Comm…English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…The James Foundation …Noble County Communit…Whitley County Commun…Olive B Cole Foundati…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Lilly Endowment IncCommunity Foundation …Kosciusko 21st Centur…
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dekko Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dekko 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 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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