· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC | $10,000 |
| ACRES INC | $6,000 |
| SCAN | $5,000 |
| TURNSTONE | $5,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE | $5,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS ZOO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SCIENCE CENTRAL INC | $4,000 |
| FORT WAYNE HISTORY CENTER | $4,000 |
| ERINS HOUSE FOR GIVING CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| JUST NEIGHBORS HOMELESS NETWORK | $3,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| PAWS OF ADAMS COUNTY | $3,000 |
| STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY HUMANE SHE | $2,000 |
| PROJECTS READS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
- AIACRES Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +370%
- IFIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- PRPROJECT READSone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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…
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,…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
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.
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…
Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation service providing free service to the public. Also providing education programs and conservation intitiatives
To improve the quality of life for unowned neighborhood cats and the community they live in by reducing overpopulation through trap, neuter, return (tnr).
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,…
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.
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…
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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack a Ewing Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack a Ewing Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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