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Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee at a glance

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Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21M
Granted FY2021
44
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$14MEducation$5.8MAnimals$5.5MYouth Development$2.7MRecreation & Sports$1.4MScience & Tech$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$830kOther$0
02FY2021 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+18 grants · $18M
$198,934
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE$596,803
FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$596,803
FORT WAYNE BALLET$525,000
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$500,000
FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART$422,868
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 12%YWCA OF NORTHEAST INDIANA: $60k → 12%YWCA OF NORTHEAST INDIANA: $10k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $125k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $25k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $25k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $25k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $13k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $50k → 12%KATE'S KART: $65k → 12%KATE'S KART: $30k → 12%KATE'S KART: $15k → 12%KATE'S KART: $15k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $100k → 12%SCAN: $75k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $25k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $25k → 12%SCAN: $25k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $25k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $25k → 12%SCAN: $20k → 12%SCAN: $15k → 12%SCAN: $15k → 12%LIFELINE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%A HOPE CENTER: $10k → 12%A HOPE CENTER: $10k → 12%A HOPE CENTER: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $10k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 75 repeat orgs$740k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
6

Total granted

$34M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+43%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $5.5M · revenue +31%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +200% · 74% of their budget
  • AC
    ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.5M · revenue +11% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONAL HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2019 · $27k
  • LY
    Lifeline Youth & Family Services Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +2%
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
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

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

Arts & Culture
2
Greater Fort Wayne Metro Chamber Alliance Inc

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…

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3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
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
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
6
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

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.

Philanthropy
7
University of Indianapolis

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.

Education
8
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
9
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
10
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc

Arts united mobilizes resources to develop, coordinate, and support arts and culture, enhancing the quality of life and the economic viability of northeast indiana.

Arts & Culture
11
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

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…

Employment
12
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 88 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC: $5,951,916 · OtherFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONICPURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE: $3,083,792 · OtherPURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNEARTS UNITED AGENCY: $2,879,544 · OtherARTS UNITED AGENCYTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $1,200,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANA: $1,118,120 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANAFORT WAYNE PARKS & RECREATION: $746,600 · Other+51 more: $3,794,372 · Other+51 moreFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,194,717 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM …SCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $1,315,809 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL IN…FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $1,112,901 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE CIVIC T…FORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $650,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE BALLET …EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $240,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,479,360 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLOG…ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $150,000 · Education+2 more: $80,000 · EducationCrosswinds Inc: $212,500 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $200,000 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S KART INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $112,500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentErins House for Grieving Children Inc: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $325,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$20,274,344Arts & Culture$5,713,427Animals$5,479,360Education$1,730,000Human Services$970,000Youth Development$440,000Housing & Shelter$325,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,479,360 over 3y, 14% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,194,717 over 5y, 74% of budgetALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $1,315,809 over 5y, 85% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $1,112,901 over 5y, 95% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $650,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetFWCS FOUNDATION INC: $427,755 over 3y, 27% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $325,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $325,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetCrosswinds Inc: $212,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $200,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetArtlink Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHeartland Sings Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $125,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL & CHARITABLE FU: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST WAYNE STREET CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHEADWATERS PARK ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetARCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP WATCHA WANNA DO LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • 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 VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
  • 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 PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC ↗

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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…Howard P Arnold Found…Aws Foundation IncThe Waterfield Founda…The James Foundation …McMillen Foundation I…Lincoln Financial Fou…Journal Gazette Found…Surack Family Foundat…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA97.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 88 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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