· Private foundation
Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LIVING WELL IN WABASH COUNTY COA INC | $10,000 |
| WABASH COUNTY YMCA | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT SERVING GREATER WABASH | $5,000 |
| THE DAVID KUNKEL FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| DESTINATION WABASH COUNTY INC | $3,000 |
| JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $2,500 |
| WABASH COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| WABASH COUNTY UNITED FUND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +100%
- 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
- HLHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +195%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Historic Landmarks Foundation of 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 LIVING WELL IN WABASH COUNTY COA INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 85 HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH STREET LEVEL MINISTRIES 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ford Meter Box Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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