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Plinth

· Private foundation

Eric a Baae and Mary C Baade Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$285kFood & Nutrition$91kArts & Culture$64kHuman Services$62kYouth Development$50kHousing & Shelter$43kEducation$25kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPER SHOT INC$10,000
HEARCARE CONNECTION INC$10,000
LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND & DISABLED INC$7,500
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC$7,500
MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYN$7,500
SHEPHERDS HOUSE$7,500
SAINT ANNE HOME AND RETIREMENT COMMUNITY$5,000
HOPE ALIVE INC$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA IN$5,000
VISITING NURSE DBA STILLWATER HOSPICE$5,000
ADULT GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES$5,000
HOMEBOUND MEALS INC$5,000
ERINS HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC$5,000
CASS HOUSING INC$5,000
MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%ADULT GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $5k → 13%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $5k → 12%LIFELINE YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYN: $8k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYN: $5k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$466k · 20 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
24

Total granted

$466k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • LF
    LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +132%
  • SS
    Super Shot Inc
    5× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +57%
  • HC
    HEARCARE CONNECTION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • LY
    Lifeline Youth & Family Services Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AC
    ALLEN COUNTY - FORT WAYNE HISTORICAL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
2
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
3
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

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
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.

—
6
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…

Human Services
7
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
8
Northeastern Indiana Casa Inc

Casa volunteers provide a voice for powerless children involved in judicial proceedings, advocate for the child's best interest, and strive to improve their circumstances and quality of life.

Crime & Legal
9
Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.

—
10
Aging and in-Home Services of Northeast Indiana Inc

To promote dignity, independence, and advocacy for all older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adult Guardianship Services. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr19%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr19%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
10%
191/1,974

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $67,500 · HealthLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INCSuper Shot Inc — $60,000 · HealthSuper Shot IncHEARCARE CONNECTION INC — $50,000 · HealthHEARCARE CONNECTION INCTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC — $17,500 · HealthTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INCVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC — $10,000 · HealthFORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Health+4 more — $22,500 · Health+4 moreHomebound Meals Inc — $23,000 · OtherHomebound Meals IncMARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN — $15,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERNCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST — $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH…FORT WAYNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · OtherALLEN COUNTY - FORT WAYNE HISTORICAL — $10,000 · OtherCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ART AND MUSIC IN — $10,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF — $7,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $15,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN IN…CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA — $10,000 · OtherWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC — $10,000 · OtherQuesta Education Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Other+10 more — $50,000 · Other+10 moreBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS I…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…Erins House for Grieving Children Inc — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentErins House…MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesAdult Guardianship Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesEAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCASS HOUSING INC — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$237,500Other$210,500Youth Development$67,500Human Services$45,500Housing & Shelter$42,500Arts & Culture$28,500Food & Nutrition$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $67,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSuper Shot Inc — $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $32,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC — $32,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc — $23,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRTEEN STEP HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAdult Guardianship Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Waterfield Founda…Howard P Arnold Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…Community Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Kuhne Charles Char Fd…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Zollner FoundationM E Raker Foundation …Aws Foundation IncMcMillen Foundation I…Surack Family Foundat…
The Waterfield Foundation IncIN62× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Zollner Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · McMillen 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 Eric a Baae and Mary C Baade Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    19report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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