Indiana · Private foundation
Do It Best Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $700k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2026
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 44
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 11
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 75% of the organizations Do It Best Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 80 | $700k | 66% |
| FY2025 | 44 | $534k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $468k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $168k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $63k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $136k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Indiana Inc | $115,800 | 3 | 1% |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $62,130 | 5 | 7% |
| United Way of Allen County Inc | $42,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Teenworks Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| YWCA Northeast Indiana Inc | $31,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fort Wayne Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Risley Agricultural Center | $29,418 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($457k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Do It Best Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Do It Best Foundation Inc
- How much does Do It Best Foundation Inc give?
- Do It Best Foundation Inc reported 80 grants totaling $699,782 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 44 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Do It Best Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Do It Best Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc ($150k), Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ($150k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Indiana Inc ($116k).
- Does Do It Best Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Do It Best Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Do It Best Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, The James Foundation Inc.
- Where is Do It Best Foundation Inc based?
- Do It Best Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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