· Private foundation
Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY WABASH COUNTY YMCA ENDOWMENT | $100,000 |
| LEARN MORE CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| WABASH COUNTY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| WABASH COUNTY YMCA | $10,000 |
| LIVING WELL IN WABASH COUNTY COA INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $6,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT SERVING GREATER WABASH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE DAVID KUNKEL FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| DESTINATION WABASH COUNTY INC | $3,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $2,500 |
| WABASH COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NORTH MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $610k) 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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- THTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +27%
- WRWHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +4%
- WCWABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- COCITY OF WABASHone grant, 2023 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $35k
- ILINDIANA LANDMARKSone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.
To provide needed grants to wabash general hospital for the purpose of purchasing needed captial equipment and scholarship funding in healthcare related fields.
To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life
To promote economic development and industrial growth in wabash county.
To rescue, support, & find homes for stray and abandoned animals.
To promote the development and growth of the convention, recreation, and visitor industry in wabash county, indiana.
Providing opportunities for independent and interdependent living for individuals with disabilities.
Provide financial and other assistance to the indigent and disadvantaged people in the community by operating a thrift store, providing holiday food baskets, and providing day reporting oportunities within the county probation program.
Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Manchester Historical Society. 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 18 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 3% 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.
42 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. 42 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 THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WABASH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DANIELS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN MORE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH AREA COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID KUNKEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WABASH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Action of Wabash County Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WELL IN WABASH COUNTY COA INC ↗
- Who funds 85 HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds North Manchester Historical Society ↗
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: Community Foundation of Wabash County Inc · Terry D and Carol a Agness Family Foundation · Wabash County United Fund Inc · Beacon Credit Union Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · American Legion Thomas Stineman Post 15 Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System 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 Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc 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.
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