· Private foundation
Demarchis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Humane Fort Wayne | $40,000 |
| THE MIGHTY ACORN FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Ctr | $30,000 |
| PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY | $10,000 |
| Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc | $9,000 |
| BREASTIE BOXES | $5,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS | $5,000 |
| KATE'S KART INC | $5,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Super Shot Inc | $2,500 |
| THE CARRIAGE HOUSE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% 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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FWFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $147k · revenue +13%
- FNFORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +59%
- HFHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +456%
Funded once
- WWWAGS & WIGGLES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FWFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATERone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
The fort wayne medical society is committed to the goals of the american medical association, the purpose of which is the preservation of the art and science of medicine, personal development of member physicians and protection and…
The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Provide services in response to individual need
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 MIGHTY ACORN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Breastie Boxes Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds 50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEY R MOORE FOUNDATION 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: Surack Family Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Tim and Libby Ash Family Foundation Inc · Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Premier Bank Foundation · McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb · Ian & Miriam Rolland 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Demarchis Family Foundation 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.