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Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$150k32%
FY202420$135k60%
FY202319$115k100%
FY20221$5kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$126kHousing & Shelter$90kHuman Services$70kHealth$46kEmployment$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kYouth Development$11kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHilltop Neighborhood House Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Porter County Indiana Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity Enterprises Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLakeshore Paws Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Cat Society Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHome Team Valpo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe Caring Place Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAbuse Counseling & Treatment Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Indiana Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLarc Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Porter County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPines Village Retirement Communities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Creation Business Advocates Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPorter County Parks Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHousing Opportunities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Als Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuardians of Florida Animal Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Porter County Community Foundation IncIN41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Porter County Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · The Gutenstein Heritage Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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About Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In

How much does Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In give?
Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In reported 31 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Housing & Shelter (22%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Harold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc ($65k), The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc ($35k), Hilltop Neighborhood House Inc ($20k).
Does Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Porter County Community Foundation Inc, John W Anderson Foundation, Nisource Charitable Foundation.
Where is Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In based?
Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In is based in IN.

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 42 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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