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Demarchis Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$328kPhilanthropy$185kAnimals$176kYouth Development$134kCrime & Legal$99kHousing & Shelter$78kEducation$66kHuman Services$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KATE'S KART INC$5,000
TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS$5,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$5,000
Super Shot Inc$2,500
THE CARRIAGE HOUSE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $1k → 14%BREASTIE BOXES: $5k → 12%Blessings in A Backpack: $1k → 15%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $5k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $147k · revenue +13%
  • FN
    FORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +59%
  • HF
    HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +456%

Funded once

  • WW
    WAGS & WIGGLES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

04Its 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
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
2
Fordland Clinic Inc

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.

Health
3
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.

Arts & Culture
4
Fort Wayne Medical Society Inc

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…

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5
Indiana Wish Inc

The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

Health
6
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

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…

Animals
7
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
8
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
9
American Cancer Society Inc

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.

Health
10
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services Inc

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…

Health
11
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

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.

Philanthropy
12
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC: $147,000 · HealthFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INCFORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES INC: $145,228 · HealthFORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES IN…+5 more: $21,000 · Health+5 moreMIGHTY ACORN FOUNDATION: $182,000 · PhilanthropyMIGHTY ACORN FOUND…HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $138,570 · AnimalsHUMANE FORT WAYN…ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $17,500 · AnimalsALAQUA ANIMAL RE…FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLO…Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Ctr: $66,000 · OtherFort Wayne Sexual A…Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment: $32,798 · OtherFort Wayne Sexual A…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER: $12,800 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANIT…WAGS & WIGGLES INC: $10,000 · OtherKATE'S KART INC: $39,200 · OtherKATE'S KART INCPROJECT PINBALL CHARITY GROUP INC: $10,000 · Other+12 more: $21,800 · Other+12 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $134,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $65,630 · Housing & ShelterCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $59,575 · Education+1 more: $90 · Education
Health$313,228Philanthropy$182,000Animals$166,070Other$192,598Youth Development$134,000Housing & Shelter$65,630Education$59,665

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIGHTY ACORN FOUNDATION: $182,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC: $147,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFORENSIC NURSING SPECIALTIES INC: $145,228 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $138,570 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $134,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $65,630 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $59,575 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $39,200 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE REHABILITATION CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED AND BLIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Surack Family Foundat…Lincoln Financial Fou…The James Foundation …Community Foundation …M E Raker Foundation …Tim and Libby Ash Fam…Franklin Electric Cha…Edward M Wilson Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…Premier Bank Foundati…McComb Family Foundat…Ian & Miriam Rolland …
Surack Family Foundation IncIN28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Demarchis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Demarchis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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