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Florence M & Paul M Staehle Fdn at a glance

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Florence M & Paul M Staehle Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$751kHuman Services$695kHousing & Shelter$189kYouth Development$122kAnimals$66kEducation$54kHealth$50kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PATRICKS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$87,446
ST ANNE HOME RETIREMENT COMM$87,446
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SHEPHERDS HOUSE$15,000
ST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC$10,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$10,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN$10,000
NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES$8,000
BELIEVE IN A DREAM INC$6,445
LOVE FORT WAYNE INC$5,000
LEXIS VOICE$3,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $7k → 16%LUTHERAN HOMES INC: $20k → 12%Summit Equestrian Center: $5k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $3k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 12%LUTHERAN LIFE VILLAGES: $15k → 12%KATES KART INC: $3k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE INC: $32k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF: $15k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$518k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
35

Total granted

$1.6M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LH
    LUTHERAN HOMES INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +93%
  • AW
    ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BO
    BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $32k · revenue +114%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • WB
    WORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +12%
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
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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2
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
3
Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc

To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
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
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
The Brandon Foundation Incorporated

The brandon foundation is an organization where students are shown the power of their potential through individualized mentoring and family-focused support.

Youth Development
8
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
9
Indiana Youth Institute Inc

Our mission is to improve the lives of all indiana children by strengthening and connecting the people, organizations, and communities focused on kids and youth.

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
11
Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
12
Early Learning Indiana Inc

Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Grace Compassionate Ministries Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lexis Voice. 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

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
23/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PATRICKS ROMAN CATHOLIC CH: $375,238 · OtherST PATRICKS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHST ANNE HOME & RETIREMENT COMM: $358,155 · OtherST ANNE HOME & RETIREMENT COMMST PATRICKS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $324,129 · OtherST PATRICKS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHSAINT ST ANNE HOME: $153,447 · OtherSAINT ST ANNE HOMEST ANNE HOME: $148,319 · OtherST ANNE HOMEST ANNE HOME RETIREMENT COMM: $87,446 · Other+28 more: $291,470 · Other+28 moreLUTHERAN HOMES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $32,440 · Human ServicesLutheran Social Services Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesEAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $7,134 · Human ServicesSUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEXIS VOICE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentSoarin Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Inc: $32,500 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · AnimalsLC NATURE PARK INC: $10,000 · AnimalsWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $12,501 · EducationTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · EducationBelieve in a Dream Inc: $6,445 · EducationTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $15,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $8,463 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $3,000 · Health
Other$1,738,204Human Services$122,074Youth Development$73,000Animals$67,500Recreation & Sports$35,000Education$28,946Health$26,463

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN HOMES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSoarin Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $32,440 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLutheran Social Services Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $13,916 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $12,501 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLC NATURE PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLEN COUNTY CASA COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetEAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $8,463 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MERCIES MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $7,134 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc: $6,445 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLove Fort Wayne Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEXIS VOICE: $3,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …English-Bonter-Mitche…M E Raker Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…The Waterfield Founda…Dr Louis a and Anne B…The James Foundation …Flora Dale Krouse Fou…Lincoln Financial Fou…Howard P Arnold Found…Surack Family Foundat…Nisource Charitable F…
Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN77.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation

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 Florence M & Paul M Staehle Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence M & Paul M Staehle Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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