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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELDRICK WILD LIFE TRUST USA | $20,000 |
| HAROLD HAL KELLEY RESPITE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $10,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC | $10,000 |
| HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| CARING PLACE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| ST AGNES ADULT DAY SERVICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUMANE INDIANA | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDRENS | $5,000 |
| LAKESHORE PAWS INC | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 0% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TDTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +8%
- HNHILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +5%
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -4%- HTHOME TEAM VALPO INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PORTER COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -20%
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.
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
The mission of the organization is to aid, advocate and adopt to enhance the lives of companion animals.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
Dog and cat rescue and rehousing; humane care and treatment of these animals.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Home Team Valpo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 42 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 Harold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Lakeshore Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Cat Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HOME TEAM VALPO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LARC INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PORTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PINES VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds New Creation Business Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds Porter County Parks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH TRAINING STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Opportunities Inc ↗
- Who funds SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guardians of Florida Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In 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.
- Larc Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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