· Private foundation
Do It Best Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k57 grants · $265k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $100,000 |
| ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $50,000 |
| RISLEY AGRICULTURAL CENTER | $29,418 |
| SCHOOL CARE TEAM | $25,000 |
| TEENWORKS INC | $20,000 |
| IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK | $20,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $18,075 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| A KID AGAIN | $13,500 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSUEM OF ART INC | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN IN | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–26, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC3× · 2023–2026 · $116k · revenue +27%
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC5× · 2021–2026 · $62k · revenue +147%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NHNeighborhood Health Clinics Incone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $48k
- UWUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INCone grant, 2025 · $42k · revenue 0%
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
To supply hope through christ to homeless neighbors, underprivileged youth, and the medically underserved in indianapolis by creating environments of love and structure that produce a lasting difference.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Hands across the water supports and empowers children and families through inclusive, strengths-based services. we envision a community where every child is valued and has a safe home and loving family where they can thrive. in keeping…
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
The mission of mercy health system corporation (mhsc) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service:…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shepherds Hand Community Outreach Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mesquite Cancer Help Society. 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 155 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 ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds It Only Takes A Spark ↗
- Who funds HEARCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MESQUITE CANCER HELP SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR10 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Love Fort Wayne Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP WATCHA WANNA DO LTD ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc
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 Do It Best Foundation Inc 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.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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