Indiana · Private foundation
M E Raker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $480k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations M E Raker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $480k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $477k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $500k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $487k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $422k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $383k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| World Baseball Academy Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| League for the Blind and Disabled Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bishop Luers High School | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Community Transportation Network Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Science Central Inc | $58,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cancer Services of Allen County Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Wellspring Interfaith Social Services Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Homebound Meals Inc | $51,000 | 6 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($649k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget M E Raker Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation
How this is measured
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About M E Raker Foundation Inc
- How much does M E Raker Foundation Inc give?
- M E Raker Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $480,436 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does M E Raker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are M E Raker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc ($95k), World Baseball Academy Inc ($70k), League for the Blind and Disabled Inc ($60k).
- Does M E Raker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does M E Raker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as M E Raker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, The Waterfield Foundation Inc.
- Where is M E Raker Foundation Inc based?
- M E Raker Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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