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Journal Gazette Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$625k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Community Improvement$645kPhilanthropy$331kHuman Services$260kHealth$193kArts & Culture$161kYouth Development$113kEducation$95kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$625,350
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUMEROUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST$625,350
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 (FY20–21, $226k) 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.

area typical 10%YWCA: $6k → 12%YWCA: $52k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $5k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $3k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 12%EAST ALLEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $125k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $3k → 12%SCAN INC: $13k → 12%SCAN INC: $5k → 12%FREEDOM HOUSE: $2k → 12%INNER CITY HOPE: $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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 49 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 49 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
47

Total granted

$1.1M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+39%

Still filing today

80%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • CT
    COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $128k · revenue +88%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +12%
  • SC
    SCIENCE CENTRAL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $58k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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
Greater Fort Wayne Metro Chamber Alliance Inc

Greater fort wayne (gfw) inc. is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for fort wayne & allen county, indiana. at gfw inc., we focus on supporting local business, attracting new business, and improving our…

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2
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…

Employment
3
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
4
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
5
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
6
United Way of Central Indiana Inc

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…

Philanthropy
7
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
8
United Way of Greater Toledo

United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.

Philanthropy
9
Headwaters Park Alliance Inc

To perform services and other responsibilities associated with developing, maintaining, and improving headwaters park in fort wayne, indiana, for the benefit of the public, including, but not limited to, providing and managing programs and…

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10
Bowen Health Inc

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

Health
11
Indiana Resource Center for Families With Special Needs Inc

The mission of insource is to provide parents, families, individuals and service providers in the state of indiana the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for…

Education
12
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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pufferbelly Junction Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr19%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr17%1%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr19%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
10%
191/1,944

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.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
46/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NUMEROUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $625,350 · OtherNUMEROUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTTHE HISTORY CENTER — $57,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $52,600 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $50,000 · Other+57 more — $476,815 · Other+57 moreUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $315,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ALLE…VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $20,050 · PhilanthropyVERA BRADLEY FOUND…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $16,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $128,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY T…YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $57,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF EVA…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY…EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $8,000 · Human Services+4 more — $9,000 · Human ServicesSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $57,500 · Arts & CultureARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $43,000 · Arts & CulturePUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $5,200 · Arts & CultureEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $3,975 · Arts & CultureTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $30,600 · HealthHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $22,100 · HealthMATTHEW 25 INC — $20,000 · HealthHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $15,675 · HealthLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $7,000 · HealthTHIRTEEN STEP HOUSE INC — $6,500 · HealthSuper Shot Inc — $6,500 · HealthNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $60,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $200 · Food & NutritionFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,261,765Philanthropy$351,050Human Services$230,000Arts & Culture$141,675Health$113,475Food & Nutrition$60,200Housing & Shelter$52,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $315,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC — $128,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC — $57,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC — $57,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $43,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC — $30,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation — $27,600 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC — $22,100 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND — $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $20,050 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $15,675 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $15,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUFFERBELLY JUNCTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEUELL A WILSON CENTER INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomebound Meals Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP WATCHA WANNA DO LTD — $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC — $8,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRTEEN STEP HOUSE INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSuper Shot Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LEADERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAWASEE AREA CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC — $5,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAllen County Christmas Bureau Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 8.4% 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.

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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …The Waterfield Founda…Howard P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…Aws Foundation IncThe James Foundation …Edward D & Ione Auer …Lincoln Financial Fou…McMillen Foundation I…
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA86.6× affinity39 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 Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · McMillen 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 Journal Gazette 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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

    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 98 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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