· Private foundation
McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of MCCOMB FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ATT DAVID MCCOMB’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION | $21,280 |
| ERIN'S HOUSE | $11,144 |
| FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE | $11,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| COUNTY LINE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CARRIAGE HOUSE | $7,250 |
| JOHN CHAPMAN KIWANIS CLUB | $7,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S ZOO | $6,000 |
| BISHOP LUERS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,827 |
| ALLEN COUNTY DRIVE ALIVE | $5,750 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $5,300 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AWANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +34%
- FSFUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +5%
- FWFORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +482%
Funded once
- SCSTEUBEN COUNTY COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- XCX COUNT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +244%
- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
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…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
The mission of nira is to help our members be productive in their business and achieve ongoing profitability through targeted education and ethical and professional standards. we are the visible voice for the real estate interests of the…
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving, to enhance the spirit of community, and to improve the quality of life in the wayne county, indiana, area now and for future generations.
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…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of brothers united is to enhance the health and wellness of black communities in indiana.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 109 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL SHRINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds X COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAN BAND BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds STAR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The James Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation
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 McComb Family Foundation Inc Att David McComb 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.
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.