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Jack a Ewing Testamentary Trust

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Animals$66kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$38kEnvironment$36kHousing & Shelter$21kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC$10,000
ACRES INC$6,000
TURNSTONE$5,000
HUMANE FORT WAYNE$5,000
SCAN$5,000
FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS ZOO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
FORT WAYNE HISTORY CENTER$4,000
SCIENCE CENTRAL INC$4,000
JUST NEIGHBORS HOMELESS NETWORK$3,000
ERINS HOUSE FOR GIVING CHILDREN$3,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$3,000
PAWS OF ADAMS COUNTY$3,000
PROJECTS READS$2,000
STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY HUMANE SHE$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCAN: $5k → 12%SCAN: $5k → 12%SCAN: $5k → 12%SCAN: $4k → 12%SCAN: $4k → 12%SCAN: $3k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$286k · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$286k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
0%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
  • AI
    ACRES Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +370%
  • IF
    IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • PR
    PROJECT READS
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…

Environment
3
Lake Erie Nature and Science Center

Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…

Arts & Culture
4
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
5
Little River Wetlands Project Inc

To restore and protect wetlands in the historic watershed of the little river, a major tributary of the wabash river, and to provide educational opportunities that encourage good stewardship of wetlands and other natural ecosystems.

Environment
6
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
7
Hoosier Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation service providing free service to the public. Also providing education programs and conservation intitiatives

Animals
8
Indy Neighborhood Cats Inc

To improve the quality of life for unowned neighborhood cats and the community they live in by reducing overpopulation through trap, neuter, return (tnr).

Animals
9
Indiana Wildlife Federation

The Indiana Wildlife Federation (IWF) is a statewide, nonprofit conservation organization, with the mission to promote the conservation, sound management, and sustainable use of Indianas wildlife and wildlife habitat through education,…

Animals
10
Buffalo Audubon Society Inc

Buffalo audubon society leads and inspires western new yorkers to connect with and protect the natural world through bird-focused activities, advocacy and habitat restoration.

Environment
11
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
12
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Trails Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORT WAYNE HISTORY CENTER — $20,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE HISTORY CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY HUMANE SHE — $17,000 · OtherSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY HUMANE SHEJUST NEIGHBORS HOMELESS NETWORK — $15,000 · OtherJUST NEIGHBORS HOMELESS NETWORKERINS HOUSE — $6,000 · OtherERINS HOUSEFORT WAYNE PET FOOD PANTRY — $6,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE PET FOOD PANTRYPROJECTS READS — $4,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 · Other+4 more — $8,000 · Other+4 moreHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC — $24,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FORT WAYNE…FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLOG…FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT WAYNE TRAI…ACRES Inc — $32,000 · EnvironmentACRES IncIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMIL…EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $20,000 · HealthSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $12,000 · Youth Development
Other$99,000Animals$46,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Environment$32,000Human Services$27,000Health$20,000Arts & Culture$19,000Youth Development$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC — $40,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetACRES Inc — $32,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC — $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $19,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WAYNE PET FOOD PANTRY — $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC
  • Who funds ACRES Inc
  • Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
  • Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC
  • Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE PET FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • 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.

Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · McMillen Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Franklin Electric Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller · Journal Gazette Foundation 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 Jack a Ewing Testamentary Trust 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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