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Flora Dale Krouse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$389kHuman Services$215kEducation$208kHealth$195kYouth Development$131kReligion$61kCommunity Improvement$48kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC$30,000
AMANI FAMILY SERVICES INC$25,000
ALLEN CO FT WAYNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC$10,000
OUT OF A JAM$10,000
BIBLICAL LIFE RECOVERY CENTER$10,000
UNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC$10,000
HOPE ALIVE$8,000
HEARTLAND SINGS INC$7,500
FORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE$7,500
EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$7,000
TEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC$6,373
FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV$5,000
CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE 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 (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE ARC OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $10k → 15%THE INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $7k → 16%THE INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%THE INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $3k → 16%RESPECT360 INC: $5k → 12%RESPECT360 INC: $3k → 12%RESPECT360 INC: $3k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 12%OUT OF A JAM: $10k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $6k → 12%LIFELINE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 12%LIFELINE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $25k → 12%THE POWER HOUSE ALLIANCE: $8k → 12%FRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $5k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $9k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $7k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 37 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
39

Total granted

$1.0M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AA
    AUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +178%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +200%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HW
    HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • BO
    BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • BI
    BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +147%

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
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

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

Arts & Culture
2
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

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

Human Services
3
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
4
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.

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5
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
6
Little Thinkers Inc

Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.

Human Services
7
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
8
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
9
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
10
Indiana Resource Center for Families With Special Needs Inc

The mission of insource is to provide parents, families, individuals and service providers in the state of indiana the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for…

Education
11
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
12
Indiana Afterschool Network Inc

Mission: we advance learning beyond the school day by actively supporting providers with resources, training, and advocacy, while mobilizing a strong network of community partners. together, we build access to high-quality out-of-school…

Education

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 Image of Hope Ranch. 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr19%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr19%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/69
the rest of the field
10%
191/1,940

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

65 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. 65 of the 86 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS — $78,929 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCISINDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $42,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITYAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC — $30,000 · OtherHeartland Sings Inc — $27,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST YOUTH COUNCIL INC — $25,000 · OtherFort Wayne Park Foundation — $24,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $21,848 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $25,000 · Other+37 more — $336,236 · Other+37 moreAUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureAUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HER…FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMON…FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF …SCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE CENTRAL INCAllen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureAllen County-Fort Way…EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $56,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD A…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,684 · Human ServicesAmerican National…BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF GRACE C…Lutheran Social Services Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesLutheran Social S…INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC — $14,750 · Human ServicesINDIANA YOUTH INS…Lifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $11,338 · Human ServicesRESPECT360 INC RESPECTTEAM — $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesOUT OF A JAM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Power House Alliance Inc — $8,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,000 · Human Services+3 moreHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $50,000 · HealthHAROLD W MCM…LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $35,000 · HealthLEAGUE FOR T…FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC — $15,000 · HealthFORT WAYNE C…TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 · HealthTURNSTONE CE…CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S A…CHILDREN'S HOPE INC — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…PARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthPARKVIEW HOS…Life Restoration Services Inc — $10,000 · HealthLife Restora…+1 more — $4,373 · HealthErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $21,244 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC — $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $54,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · Animals
Other$611,013Arts & Culture$275,000Human Services$226,272Health$159,373Youth Development$87,244Crime & Legal$64,000Animals$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC — $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $54,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,684 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAllen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC — $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHeartland Sings Inc — $27,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST YOUTH COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation — $24,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $21,848 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $21,244 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLutheran Social Services Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE ALIVE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC — $14,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INC — $13,091 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTEACH OUR CHILDREN FUND INC — $11,373 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLifeline Youth & Family Services Inc — $11,338 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESPECT360 INC RESPECTTEAM — $11,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC — $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG LEADERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF ALLEN COUNTY INDIANA — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Power House Alliance Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…The Waterfield Founda…Howard P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …The James Foundation …Aws Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…Surack Family Foundat…Kuhne Charles Char Fd…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA115.6× affinity53 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 · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main

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 Flora Dale Krouse Foundation 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 86 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.

    Source object · view filing

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