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Do It Best Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$700k
Granted FY2026still arriving
80
Grants FY2026still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Human Services$414kHealth$400kArts & Culture$247kPublic Safety & Disaster$158kReligion$124kFood & Nutrition$108kAnimals$105kHousing & Shelter$83kOther$0
02FY2026 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k57 grants · $265k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$100,000
ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$50,000
RISLEY AGRICULTURAL CENTER$29,418
SCHOOL CARE TEAM$25,000
IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK$20,000
TEENWORKS INC$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
COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK$10,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN IN$10,000
CAMP RED CEDAR$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SENIOR RESOURCES: $5k → 16%HELPING HANDS CRISIS PREGNANCY: $500 → 9%THE CREW YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 10%A KID AGAIN: $14k → 13%ROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME: $5k → 13%MESQUITE WORKS INC: $10k → 13%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $8k → 14%UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $5k → 12%RESPECT 360 INC: $3k → 12%A KID AGAIN: $6k → 13%ROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME: $5k → 13%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $5k → 14%RESPECT 360 INC: $3k → 12%HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE: $10k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $4k → 13%UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY: $5k → 12%GOODFELLOWS OF LEE COUNTY: $5k → 12%LODI FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 7%UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY: $5k → 12%OUT OF A JAM: $5k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $20k → 12%PROJECT MARILYN: $3k → 13%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $5k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $1k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 12%SHEPHERD'S HANDY COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $4k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%KATE'S KART: $8k → 12%KATE'S KART: $8k → 12%KATE'S KART: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $5k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $5k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $4k → 12%SCAN INC: $20k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
NV
SD
IN
OH
MO
AZ
NC
SC
LA
TX
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 45 repeat orgs$938k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
57

Total granted

$1.1M
$571k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

78%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionEducationOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    3× · 2023–2026 · $116k · revenue +27%
  • BI
    BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    5× · 2021–2026 · $62k · revenue +323%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NH
    Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $48k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2025 · $42k · revenue 0%
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
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
2
Indiana Health Centers Inc

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.

Health
3
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Bowen Health Inc

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

Health
5
Good News Mission Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

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.

Education
7
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

—
8
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
9
Hands Across the Water Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
Mercy Health System Corporation

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:…

Health
12
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shepherds Hand Community Outreach Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 155 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
62/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125,104 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $115,800 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA…Individual grant recipient: $48,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $42,000 · OtherTEENWORKS INC: $35,000 · Other+77 more: $592,729 · Other+77 moreNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $150,000 · HealthNeighborhood Healt…MATTHEW 25 INC: $25,000 · HealthMATTHEW 25 INCHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $20,000 · HealthHEARCARE CONNECTIO…It Only Takes A Spark: $20,000 · HealthIt Only Takes A Sp…MESQUITE CANCER HELP SOCIETY: $19,500 · HealthMESQUITE CANCER HE…American Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $12,500 · Health+12 more: $76,513 · Health+12 moreYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $31,400 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAS…MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED …KATE'S KART INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesKATE'S KART I…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $19,838 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY S…A KID AGAIN INC: $19,250 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN I…COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRA…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $14,357 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEAL…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMESQUITE WORKS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLodi Family Center: $8,985 · Human Services+13 more: $52,600 · Human Services+13 moreARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureARTS UNITED …FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE M…FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $25,865 · Arts & Culture+6 moreFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · AnimalsWe Care for Animals: $4,500 · AnimalsBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $62,130 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTeen Turf Inc: $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $25,000 · ReligionWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 · ReligionFOUR10 MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · ReligionLove Fort Wayne Inc: $12,000 · ReligionCAMP WATCHA WANNA DO LTD: $11,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,000 · ReligionTHE LORDS WORK INC: $4,000 · Religion
Other$958,633Health$338,513Human Services$255,430Arts & Culture$223,865Animals$104,500Youth Development$94,630Religion$94,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $115,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $62,130 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $42,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEENWORKS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $31,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $21,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $20,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC: $20,205 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $19,838 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESQUITE CANCER HELP SOCIETY: $19,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOUR10 MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLove Fort Wayne Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP WATCHA WANNA DO LTD: $11,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESQUITE WORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF FORT WAYNE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $6,670 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $5,513 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESPECT360 INC RESPECTTEAM: $5,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5,000 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.

Community Foundation …English-Bonter-Mitche…The James Foundation …The Waterfield Founda…Edward M Wilson Found…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Surack Family Foundat…M E Raker Foundation …Zollner FoundationHoward P Arnold Found…Aws Foundation IncParkview Health Syste…
Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN87× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Do It Best Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Do It Best Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Do It Best 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 155 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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