· Private foundation
Doermer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $915k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS | $115,000 |
| BRIDGE OF GRACE | $100,000 |
| ARTS UNITED | $100,000 |
| QUESTA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $50,000 |
| LC NATURE PARK | $40,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $30,000 |
| WOMENS FUND AT CFGFW | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LINCOLN COLLECT | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE SOUTH BEND | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- QEQuesta Education Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +46%
- LNLC NATURE PARK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +9%
- SCSCIENCE CENTRAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +45%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
- ACASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FORT WAYNE IND INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Grace Compassionate Ministries Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LC NATURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS ACADEMY CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE 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: The James Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · McMillen Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · American Electric Power 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 Doermer Family 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.
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.