· Private foundation
Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $35,000 |
| BRIDGE OF GRACE | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY | $26,295 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $20,000 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART | $11,500 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $10,500 |
| SUPER SHOT | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIADO DE AMIGOS DA FAMILIAABIGAIL | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANA | $10,000 |
| WATER WELL TRUST | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S ZOO | $9,195 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FORT WAYNE | $7,500 |
| TURNSTONE | $7,500 |
| FORT WAYNE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- SCSCIENCE CENTRAL INC5× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +7%
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +77%
- FWFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IRINTERNATIONAL RED CROSSRED CRESCENTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BSBLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +75%
- MYMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +37%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide services in response to individual need
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teaching in the Son 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELLS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · 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 Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational 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.
- Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc — 14% 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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