· Private foundation
Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of EDWARD D & IONE AUER FOUNDATION MONARCH CAPITAL DAVID MEYER TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+18 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $2,461,989 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $2,430,113 |
| FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,382,557 |
| ARTS UNITED AGENCY | $1,981,676 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,671,849 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $941,875 |
| FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE | $813,967 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANA | $794,186 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $686,802 |
| FORT WAYNE PARKS & RECREATION | $600,000 |
| FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $596,803 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $596,803 |
| FORT WAYNE BALLET | $525,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500,000 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART | $422,868 |
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 (FY17–21, $970k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2021, 45 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k 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
- FWFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $5.5M · revenue +31%
- FWFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +200% · 74% of their budget
- ACALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $1.5M · revenue +11% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONAL HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IUIndiana University School of Medicineone grant, 2019 · $27k
- LYLifeline Youth & Family Services Incone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +2%
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.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
Greater fort wayne (gfw) inc. is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for fort wayne & allen county, indiana. at gfw inc., we focus on supporting local business, attracting new business, and improving our…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
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.
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.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Provide services in response to individual need
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Arts united mobilizes resources to develop, coordinate, and support arts and culture, enhancing the quality of life and the economic viability of northeast indiana.
The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pufferbelly Junction Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 88 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 FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FWCS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Wayne Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Crosswinds Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds Artlink Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Sings Inc ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds PUFFERBELLY JUNCTION 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation 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 Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee 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.