· Private foundation
Ian & Miriam Rolland Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $413k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FORT WAYNE | $50,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE | $40,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDRENADULT | $40,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $35,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 | $35,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $23,000 |
| FORT WAYNE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA | $15,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $15,000 |
| BLUE JACKET | $10,000 |
| PBJ CONNECTIONS | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +36%
- M2MATTHEW 25 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $179k · revenue +96%
- FWFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- EWEAST WAYNE STREET CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -65%
- AUARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INCone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
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United way of central indiana partners to design, support and grow systems that accelerate financial stability and upward mobility for individuals and families living in or near poverty and striving for a brighter future.we help people…
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
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.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…
The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bartholomew County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rico Pet Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 87 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Wayne Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds PBJ CONNECTIONS JEDLICKA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds SANS SOUCI INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds Homebound Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROAD CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot 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: Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Zollner Foundation
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 Ian & Miriam Rolland Foundation 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.
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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