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Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$37,500
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$77k0%
FY202313$77k0%
FY202214$79k29%
FY202114$80k7%
FY202014$80k0%
FY201914$72k7%
FY201814$68k21%
FY201713$64kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$325kArts & Culture$87kEducation$36kAnimals$30kFood & Nutrition$24kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$22kYouth Development$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$267,04780%
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc$64,00080%
Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc$29,82170%
Indiana University School of Medicine$25,0005n/a
Matthew 25 Inc$24,60080%
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc$24,00080%
Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc$24,00080%
Salvation Army$23,0008n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana$19,00081%
Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin Inc$6,00030%
Northwestern University$5,00010%
Fort Wayne Cinema Center Inc$4,00021%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $267,047 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFort Wayne Museum of Art Inc: $64,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFort Wayne Zoological Society Inc: $29,821 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Inc: $24,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTurnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana: $19,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of South Central Wisconsin Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Wayne Cinema Center Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Journal Gazette Foundation IncIN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc · Edward & Hildegarde Schaefer Foundation · William J & Bonnie L Hefner Foundation Inc · Valiant Foundation Inc · Chaffee Family Foundation Inc · The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn

How much does Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn give?
Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn reported 14 grants totaling $81,735 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (6%).
Who are Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($267k), Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc ($64k), Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc ($30k).
Does Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Journal Gazette Foundation Inc, McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb, Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee.
Where is Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn based?
Marvin and Marva Komisarow Fdn is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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