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Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc at a glance

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Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$368k
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$443kPhilanthropy$394kArts & Culture$344kYouth Development$315kHealth$219kHuman Services$183kScience & Tech$119kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $194k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $3k → 15%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $500 → 8%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDEN: $3k → 10%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $200 → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS INC: $3k → 10%Madison Area Food Pantry Garden: $2k → 10%CHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $3k → 21%YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne: $16k → 9%Kids' Voice of Indiana: $1k → 16%OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR THE DISABLED: $5k → 16%Family Centered Services: $500 → 9%Family Centered Services: $250 → 9%Family Centered Services: $250 → 9%Lifeline Youth & Family Services: $2k → 12%A Mother's Hope Inc: $3k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $30k → 12%Bridge of Grace: $30k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $30k → 12%KATE'S KART: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART: $3k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $2k → 12%Kate's Kart: $1k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%SCAN: $5k → 12%YWCA: $5k → 12%YWCA: $5k → 12%SCAN: $5k → 12%SCAN: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
OK
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 109 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
83

Total granted

$2.0M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+43%

Still filing today

32%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SCIENCE CENTRAL INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +7%
  • TC
    TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +77%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RED CROSSRED CRESCENT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BS
    BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +75%
  • MY
    METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

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.

Philanthropy
3
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

—
4
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
5
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
8
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
9
Arc of Wabash County Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 230 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC: $200,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONICJunior Achievement: $154,250 · OtherJunior AchievementUNITED WAY OF WELLS COUNTY INC: $60,590 · OtherFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $48,095 · Other+159 more: $845,908 · Other+159 moreUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $269,271 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $15,417 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropySCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $116,052 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE C…FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYN…FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $38,400 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYN…+3 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $16,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S KART INC: $15,750 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $12,190 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $6,500 · Human Services+8 more: $17,399 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $127,701 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $50,436 · HealthSuper Shot Inc: $42,000 · HealthLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $9,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $9,000 · HealthSEEDS OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $49,343 · EducationMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $38,575 · EducationINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $13,027 · Education
Other$1,308,843Philanthropy$290,688Arts & Culture$203,952Human Services$177,839Youth Development$132,701Health$118,436Education$100,945

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $269,271 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $127,701 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $116,052 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELLS COUNTY INC: $60,590 over 2y, 11% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $50,436 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $49,343 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $48,095 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $42,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $38,575 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $38,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $15,750 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $15,417 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $13,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $13,027 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $12,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWATER WELL TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $8,996 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $8,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY: $6,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR THE DISABLED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAUNAKEE ECUMENICAL BOARD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $4,544 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER FORT WAYNE METRO CHAMBER ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $3,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA MOTHER'S HOPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA 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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …The James Foundation …Lincoln Financial Fou…Edward D & Ione Auer …Dr Louis a and Anne B…Aws Foundation IncZollner FoundationDo It Best Foundation…Surack Family Foundat…Parkview Health Syste…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA53× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 230 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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